Immigrants in the competitive and segmented labour markets

Abstrakti

Will Somerville and Madeleine Sumption, Migration Policy Institute, have recently published “Immigration and the labour market: Theory, evidence and policy” -report which raises interesting aspects to the relevant topic. According to them, immigrant competition is likely to be concentrated on certain kinds of jobs that immigrants can easily fi ll, particularly those that do not require language fl uency, cultural knowledge or local experience. This means that previous immigrants, i.e. foreign-born workers already present in the country bear the effects of competition from new immigrants.