Labour Market Flexibilisation and the Disadvantages of Immigrant Employment: Japanese-Brazilian Immigrants in Japan

Canada needs immigration in order to maintain economic success, thus Canada accepts approximately 250,000 immigrants from countries around the world. Some of these immigrants find themselves gaining employment in the secondary labour market in the service and construction sectors. This paper aims to identify and analyze the experiences and issues Brazilian immigrants face in segmented labour markets. The study incorporates the knowledge and information gained from interviewing fifteen Brazilians who have recently immigrated to Canada and are employed in either the construction or service sector. After an in depth study, the following research will explore the issues revolving around occupational mobility, barriers to employment, educational credentials, and personal attitudes that Brazilian immigrants face in the labour market.

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Occupational mobility of Brazilian immigrants in segmented labour markets

10.32920/ryerson.14662788 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Vendramin

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Service Sector ◽

Occupational Mobility ◽

Labour Markets ◽

Mobility Barriers ◽

Barriers To Employment ◽

Depth Study ◽

Educational Credentials ◽

Personal Attitudes ◽

Brazilian Immigrants

Canada needs immigration in order to maintain economic success, thus Canada accepts approximately 250,000 immigrants from countries around the world. Some of these immigrants find themselves gaining employment in the secondary labour market in the service and construction sectors. This paper aims to identify and analyze the experiences and issues Brazilian immigrants face in segmented labour markets. The study incorporates the knowledge and information gained from interviewing fifteen Brazilians who have recently immigrated to Canada and are employed in either the construction or service sector. After an in depth study, the following research will explore the issues revolving around occupational mobility, barriers to employment, educational credentials, and personal attitudes that Brazilian immigrants face in the labour market.

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The price of being an outsider: Labour market flexibility and immigrants’ employment paths in Germany

International Journal of Comparative Sociology ◽

10.1177/0020715211412113 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 264-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Irena Kogan

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Random Effects ◽

Employment Status ◽

Random Effects Models ◽

Labour Market Flexibility ◽

Immigrant Employment

This article attempts to answer the question to what extent recent reforms aimed at flexibilizing the German labour market affected immigrants and how this explains the (in)stability of their employment paths. Based on the 1996–1999 and 2001–2004 German micro-census panels, we focus not only on transitions from employment to unemployment and vice versa, but also on the type of employment, either open-ended or fixed-term. Dynamic random effects models explore the effects of the employment status in the preceding year on the employment status in the subsequent one for various groups of immigrants. Results confirm the more precarious nature of immigrant employment with a more frequent mobility in and out of unemployment, a more pronounced incidence of fixed-term employment and a higher instability of open-ended jobs.

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