The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labour market hierarchies

Across European Union (EU) labour markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate market outcomes, signifying widespread hierarchies. Despite the considerable investment in migration integration policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to or alleviate hierarchies between natives immigrants. Using a longitudinal model based on individual-level EU LFS country-level DEMIG POLICY POLMIG databases, we explore variation changes of immigration policies across Western member states study how they are linked terms unemployment employment quality gaps populations. Our findings suggest that designing less restrictive could aid reducing existing disadvantages for immigrants, enabling them realise their full potential reduce immigrant-native