The Netherlands has been high sought after as a potential place of residence and employment due to its highly liberal society as well as high quality of life.
Upon arrival in the Netherlands, non-western immigrants are less likely to be employed and if employed, they usually work in lower skilled jobs, compared to natives with comparable observed characteristics. On the other hand, the labour market performance of western immigrants does not much differ from that of natives. Differences in the initial position of these two immigrant groups can be attributed to two main reasons. The first one refers to different immigration policies for these groups. Western immigrants do not face any legal restriction and they enter usually as a labo western immigrants may enter only on the basis of humanitarian reasons, as a family or asylum migrant.
Immigrants’ disadvantage is not limited to low labour market participation and high unemployment. It has been widely documented that the quality of jobs occupied by immigrants is usually relatively low. Since no direct measurement of job quality is available and no information on wages is included in the LFS, the quality of jobs will be approximated by the Erikson. Goldthorpe and Portocarero (EGP) social class scheme, which is regularly used by sociologists (Evans 1992). The EGP reflects various dimensions of job quality, like wages, skill requirements, employment status, power relations in production process, routines of tasks, promotion possibilities and career prospects. To assess the relative position of immigrants in occupational classes, we reorganise the original eleven categories of the EGP into three categories, referred to as 1: Service class (professionals and managerial jobs), 2: Intermediate jobs and 3: Working class (routine non-manual and semi- and unskilled manual jobs).
Non-western immigrants are highly concentrated in the category working class jobs while the occupational distribution of western immigrants is closer to that of natives. Among immigrants, the categories TurkMoroc. Asylum and non-west migrants are overrepresented in working class jobs. Caribbean migrants have a better position than other non-western migrants. Native and western men have more likely service class jobs compared to their female counterparts while the opposite holds for women from the other categories TurkMoroc, Asylum and Eastern-European.
The distribution of the employed labour force across these job categories is no doubt largely determined by individual background variables. To assess ethnic differences in the distribution, we study determinants of being in one of the three job types by regression models. We will not impose a strict ranking assumption on the job classes and model. The probability of being in one of the occupational classes as a multinomial choice process. The coefficients for reference outcome 3 (Working class jobs) are normalized to zero; thus, we estimate probabilities of having a service class or intermediate job, separate for men and women, relative to having a working class job.
It is imperative to find out more about the employment situation and relocation information on The Netherlands before making any major decisions. The Netherlands is indeed a great place to live and work, but labour distribution and control appears to be something you should look out for.
Source: Iza
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