Spain: large-scale regularisation and its impacts on labour market and social policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fausto Miguélez ◽  
Albert Recio
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Employment Rights

Regularisation measures in Spain have formed part of an overall immigration policy that until a few years ago was geared more towards border security than to meeting the demands of the labour market. However, the regularisation campaign in 2005 was different: it enjoyed widespread popular support and sought to combat the informal economy and grant employment rights to immigrants who were in fact working. As a result, the labour market is now better regulated, but efforts to combat segmentation have not been so successful. Furthermore, the regularisation campaigns were inadequately funded, and failed to bring about sufficient improvements in public policies.

scholarly journals Rekommodifieringen av taxibranschen - förändring av ekonomiska förhållanden och etnisk sammansättning

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Susanne Urban ◽  
Zoran Slavnic
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Economic Relations

I denna artikel analyseras de socio-ekonomiska konsekvenserna av den hastigt avreglerade taxibranschen. Det har blivit vanligare för utrikes födda att arbeta i taxibranschen, men de har inte blivit integrerade på samma villkor som de infödda kollegerna. Trots att de utrikes födda är högre utbildade, har de lägre inkomst från taxibranschen än de infödda. Resultaten visar hur en bransch med försämrade arbetsvillkor kan erbjuda relativt attraktiva arbetsmöjligheter för utrikes födda, samtidigt som det resulterar i en oavsiktlig bieffekt, nämligen att utrikes födda påverkas hårdast av de rekommodifierande processerna i relationerna mellan arbetsmarknad och socialpolitik. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Susanne Urban & Zoran Slavnic: Recommodification of the Taxi Sector: Changing of Economic Relations and Ethnic Composition This article addresses the socio-economic consequences of the rapid deregulation of the Swedish taxi sector. Foreign-born residents have become more involved in the taxi business, but they have not been integrated in the sector under the same conditions as their Swedish-born fellow workers. Although higher educated, they have lower incomes from the taxi sector than their Swedish-born colleagues. Our findings show how a sector with increasingly poorer working conditions appears to be an attractive employment opportunity for foreign-born citizens. However, at the same time, there is an unintended side-effect, in that the foreign born workers are severely affected by the recommodification processes in the relations between labour market and social policy. Key words: Taxi sector, ethnic segmentation, re-commodifi-cation, deregulation, ethnic divison of labor, informal economy.

ON EMPLOYMENT OF THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS IN POLAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 552 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Maciej Duszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Social Insurance Institution ◽  
Polish Migration ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Third Country Nationals

From 2007 to 2008 Poland largely liberalised its immigration policy. This process aimed to increase the employment of foreigners in Poland with a view to supplementing the labour market shortages. The article analyses the changes in the scale of foreigners’ employment that took place from 2008 to 2012, using data sourced from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and Social Insurance Institution. On this basis, the introduced changes and their effectiveness was assessed. Moreover the article contains recommendations which, if carried into effect, might result in increased effectiveness of Polish migration policy.

Yearly quotas and country-reserved shares in Italian immigration policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Cuttitta
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Italian Immigration ◽  
Migration Flows

Regular immigration to Italy is based on a quota system setting annual ceilings to legal entries. Reserved shares are granted to single countries or categories of countries. Reserved shares have been increased; they are used as an incentive to obtain the cooperation of countries of origin in stemming irregular migration flows. The total quota of regular immigration has gradually increased too. Still, it does not fully respond to the growing demand of foreign workers on the labour market, and quotas seem to be used as crypto-regularisations rather than as an instrument for regulating legal entries.

scholarly journals The Relevance of Inequality Research in Sociology for Inequality Reduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110201
Author(s):  
Thomas A. DiPrete ◽  
Brittany N. Fox-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
The Subject

Social inequality is a central topic of research in the social sciences. Decades of research have deepened our understanding of the characteristics and causes of social inequality. At the same time, social inequality has markedly increased during the past 40 years, and progress on reducing poverty and improving the life chances of Americans in the bottom half of the distribution has been frustratingly slow. How useful has sociological research been to the task of reducing inequality? The authors analyze the stance taken by sociological research on the subject of reducing inequality. They identify an imbalance in the literature between the discipline’s continual efforts to motivate the plausibility of large-scale change and its lesser efforts to identify feasible strategies of change either through social policy or by enhancing individual and local agency with the potential to cumulate into meaningful progress on inequality reduction.

scholarly journals Correcting Citizens’ Misperceptions about non-Western Immigrants: Corrective Information, Interpretations, and Policy Opinions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Juhl Jørgensen ◽  
Mathias Osmundsen
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Correct Information ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Information Change ◽  
Corrective Information

Abstract Can corrective information change citizens’ misperceptions about immigrants and subsequently lead to favorable immigration opinions? While prior studies from the USA document how corrections about the size of minority populations fail to change citizens’ immigration-related opinions, they do not examine how other facts that speak to immigrants’ cultural or economic dependency rates can influence immigration policy opinions. To extend earlier work, we conducted a large-scale survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of Danes. We randomly expose participants to information about non-Western immigrants’ (1) welfare dependency rate, (2) crime rate, and (3) proportion of the total population. We find that participants update their factual beliefs in light of correct information, but reinterpret the information in a highly selective fashion, ultimately failing to change their policy preferences.

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