Immigration is once again at the forefront of policy debate in many European countries. Public opinion
concerns are caused not only by the recent refugees crisis but also by the increases in intra-EU mobility
and in the inflows of economic migrants in the Union. Using data from the latest editions of the European
Labour Force Survey, the Migration Observatory Annual Reports provide fresh and updated evidence on the
economic integration of immigrants in Europe, focusing especially on their labour market outcomes.
This is the second edition of the Migration Observatory annual report on immigrant integration. Over the past year, the relevance of immigration as a European policy issue has, if possible, increased. The attention devoted to undocumented migration pressure at the European borders leads sometimes to overlook the fact that one in ten residents of EU countries in 2016 were born abroad: their successful integration is a major EU policy challenge.
Using data from the 2016 edition of the European Labour Force Survey and from several quarters of the Italian Labour Force Survey (spanning the period 2009-2017), this report provides first a fresh and updated overview of the labour market integration of immigrants in Europe. It then analyses the labour market integration of immigrants in Italy, paying special attention to their assimilation over time.
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Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan. He is also a Research Fellow CEPR, at CReAM, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London (UCL), at Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA) and at IZA. He received his PhD in Economics from University College London in 2010. His main research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics and the Economics of Migration. His work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of the European Eocnomic Association, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Geography, and Economic Policy among others.
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Natalia Vigezzi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics of the University of Toronto. She holds and BSc and a MSc in Economics from Bocconi University. Before starting her PhD, she worked at Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano between 2017 and 2019 where she participated in the research activities of the Migration Observatory.
