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Labour market integration in Ireland: migration channels, ethnicity and Irish citizenship

DATE Friday 19th of September 2020 EVENT Conference talk AUTHORS Fran McGinnity Ivan Privalko Éamonn Fahey Shannen Enright

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Main Questions

• This paper considers migrant differences in

unemployment using microdata from the 2016 Census. We ask

– Does the channel used by migrants to arrive in Ireland have a significant effect on unemployment? – Can this effect be explained by migrant characteristics or selection? – Does Irish citizenship (Irish nationality or not) matter for migrants in terms of unemployment?

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Why are some migrant groups more successful than others? Migration routes

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• Refugees report worse outcomes compared to other

migrants (Bakker et al 2013; Hainmueller et al 2016)

• In Ireland arriving through the protection system has

significant negative effects for migrants (O’Connell 2019)

• Skills and qualifications (human capital) affects labour

market outcomes of migrants (Borjas, 1999), also host- country language skills and duration in host country are important (Esser, 2004) .

Previous lit: migration route and skills

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• Ethnic discrimination in Western labour markets is reported

routinely, and Human Capital cannot fully explain these penalties (OECD, 2013; Zschirnt and Ruedin, 2016)

• There is evidence of ethnic discrimination in Ireland against

Black ethnic respondents, regardless of migrant status

(Kingston et al 2015; McGinnity et al 2018).

• Host country citizenship may be associated with better

labour market outcomes, though findings are mixed (Hoxhaj et al 2019; Fleschman and Dronkers 2010). The effect may also vary for different migrant groups (Pieters et al 2018).

Discrimination and citizenship

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Hypotheses

• H1a: EEA migrants will be less likely to be unemployed, compared to

non-EEA migrants.

• H1b: Non-EEA migrants who come through the protection system will

be more likely to be unemployed than other Non-EEA migrants.

• H2: Migrants with more human capital will be less likely to be

unemployed.

• H3: Black migrants will be more likely to be unemployed than White

migrants regardless of migration channel, or Human Capital.

• H4a: Migrants who are Irish citizens will be less likely to be

unemployed than migrants who are not Irish citizens.

• H4b: Irish citizenship will be more effective for non-EEA migrants, who

have more to ‘gain’ from citizenship compared to EEA migrants.

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Methods

We consider all migrants (born abroad) in the 2016 Census.

• 4.7 million responses, but we will drop responses from Ireland and those

(few) with no distinct COB (Other Africa, Other Asia)

• 789,525 people born outside of Ireland. This includes those born in

Northern Ireland.

Our outcome is unemployment, so we limit the sample to those aged 15- 64 who are active in the labour market. We are left with 367,408 people. We use logistic regression and robust standard errors to estimate the relationship between unemployment and controls. Our paper also considers occupational attainment, which we ignore for now.

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Main controls

• Channel of arrival

– EEA born and Non EEA-born. – Chance of coming through the international protection system (asyratio). (calculated at country level based on UNHCR stats)

• Ethnicity of migrant - White, Black, Asian, Other
• Irish Citizenship

– Whether the respondent is an Irish National

• Human capital and compositional measures

– Education (no info on where acquired) – English language ability (self-assessed) – Age – Gender – Duration in Ireland (this measure is limited)

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Method of arrival and Human Capital

Unemployment Country-level factors Odds ratio EEA (Ref. non-EEA) 0.78*** Likelihood of arriving through international protection system (asyratio) 1.76*** Education (Ref. primary only) Lower secondary 0.78*** Upper secondary/vocational 0.44*** Tertiary 0.27***

Model controls for EEA born migrants, chance of seeking asylum, ethnicity, Irish nationality, education, English, age, gender, and duration in Ireland

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English language, ethnicity, and Irish citizenship

Speak English (Ref. very well) Well 1.28*** Not well 1.89*** Not at all 2.43***

Model controls for EEA born migrants, chance of seeking asylum, ethnicity, Irish nationality, education, English, age, gender, and duration in Ireland

Ethnicity (Ref. White) Black 1.62*** Asian 1.02 Other 1.28 Irish citizenship (Ref. non-Irish) 0.99

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Interaction between Irish nationality and EEA migrants

Unemployment EEA migrants Non-EEA migrants Irish Nationality 1.148*** 0.798*** Model controls for EEA born migrants, chance of seeking asylum, ethnicity, Irish nationality, education, English, age, gender, and duration in Ireland

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Summary of findings

• Mechanism of entry is associated with unemployment
• EEA migrants less likely to be unemployed
• Non-EEA migrants who have come through protection system are further

disadvantaged

• Human capital is important, as is duration in Ireland (where observed)
• Ethnic disadvantage experienced by Black migrants cannot be explained by

Human Capital, origin, or Irish nationality. This disadvantage does not apply to other non-White ethnic groups (eg Asians).

• Effects of Irish citizenship are complex - may depend on EEA versus non-EEA
• status. We are investigating this further.

Limitations – just first generation, duration info limited, large sample suggests many significant findings although many of the differences are also substantive.

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Thank you

Any questions please email: Fran McGinnity- fran.mcginnity@esri.ie Ivan Privalko- ivan.privalko@esri.ie Shannen Enright- Shannen.Enright@esri.ie This article drew on a research report named “Origin and Integration”, available at https://www.esri.ie/publications/origin-and- integration-a-study-of-migrants-in-the-2016-irish- census

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