Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0004
Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Immigration Policies and Labour Market Outcomes: Comparing Croatia with Hungary and Slovenia
Valerija Botrić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5482-7490
; Institute of Economics (Zagreb/Croatia)
Abstract
The paper provides comparative evidence on attitudes towards immigrants, their labour market outcomes and policies in Croatia and two neighbouring countries – Slovenia and Hungary. Three different data sources have been used: the European Social Survey, an ad-hoc Labour Force Survey module for the year 2014, and the MIPEX index. Although immigrants have a disadvantaged position on the Croatian labour market, most analysed indicators do not imply that they are in a worse position than in other European economies. Migrant integration policies related to the labour market are assessed as being relatively favourable for Croatia. Judging by the comparable indicators for the native population in Croatia, immigrants’ adverse labour market outcomes seem to be more related to the unfavourable general economic situation, and particularly by the deep and long recession.
Keywords
immigration; labour market outcomes; comparative analysis; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
167354
URI
Publication date:
5.10.2016.
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