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Lower job satisfaction among workers migrating within Europe: A gender paradox
Donegani, Chiara Paola McKay, Stephen
Donegani, Chiara Paola
McKay, Stephen
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2018-09-26
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Intra-European migrants reported lower job satisfaction levels than native workers, in three rounds of the European Social Survey. This deficit was also experienced by their descendants (the second generation), despite the latter generation achieving native levels of household income. At least some part of these lower levels of job satisfaction was associated with a clustering into lower-productivity industries. There are striking gender differences in experiences: among men the first generation is just as likely to be satisfied with their jobs as the ‘native’ population, whilst it is the second generation who are less likely to achieve job satisfaction. For women, both generations experienced a deficit in job satisfaction. This may reflect changing expectations of work among men, and integration for women, across generations, and contrasts with the convergence in earnings over time. The country of origin, within Europe, did not seem to be associated with levels of job satisfaction.
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Donegani, C. P. and McKay, S. (2018) 'Lower job satisfaction among workers migrating within Europe: A gender paradox'. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2018, pp. 1-27, doi: 10.1177/0143831X18799905
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