Labour market dualism and immigration policy preferences. Issue 2 (1st February 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pardos-Prado, Sergi
• Is Part Of: Journal of European public policy. Volume 27:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2020-02-01
• Subjects: Attitudes towards immigration -- immigration policy preferences -- labour market -- dualism -- skill specificity -- difference-in-differences; European Union countries -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Political planning -- European Union countries -- Periodicals; Politique publique -- Pays de l'Union européenne -- Périodiques; Pays de l'Union européenne -- Politique et gouvernement -- Périodiques; 361.61094
• DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1701536
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-1763

Abstract

ABSTRACT: What are the effects of labour market deregulation and increased immigration inflows on public attitudes towards immigration? Despite increased levels of dualism and free movement of labour in European countries over the last two decades, the effects of these policy developments are still unclear in the literature. This study argues that high concentrations of migrant workers in non-standard forms of employment decrease economic redistribution towards, and labour competition with, immigrants. Consequently, the politicisation of immigrant-native conflicts is paradoxically lower when immigration and labour market dualism cluster together at the occupational level. These claims are validated cross-nationally, and in a difference-in-differences setting analysing the impact of the 2005 German Immigration Act.