) countries and provides new analysis of their policy and non-policy drivers. One key finding is that education and anti-discrimination …

This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse … behaviours and attitudes of migrants are diverging from or converging with those of natives. Chapter 2 examines the causes of … differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …

Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of … immigrants come first as a temporary immigrant, to work or study, and then seek to move to permanent status. Around one half of …

longitudinal approach to data collection; (iii) the inclusion of adequate information about relevant characteristics of migrants …

market performance of immigrants requires a two-fold strategy. First, policies specific to migrants need to be enhanced. To …Immigrants make up one fifth of the Belgian working age population, but their labour market integration is poor …. Employment rates of non-EU immigrants, in particular, are very low, and the problem extends to their native-born offspring …

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived … the non-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives …, men to a larger extent than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for …

and discrimination? How legitimate are claims arguing migrants are economically discriminated because they don't integrate …This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities …

approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants. …This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage … discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the …