Job satisfaction among immigrant workers: A review of determinants

Z Wang, X Jing - Social indicators research, 2018 - Springer
In recent years, an increasing number of studies have investigated the well-being of
international immigrants in host countries. An important indicator of immigrants' well-being is …

Introduction to the Special Issue: European youth migration: human capital outcomes, skills and competences

A Lulle, H Janta, H Emilsson - Journal of Ethnic and Migration …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Human capital has been long an exceedingly important concept in migration research. Over
time there have been attempts to provide more nuanced, and less economistic …

Aspiration squeeze: The struggle of children to positively selected immigrants

P Engzell - Sociology of Education, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Why is it that children of immigrants often outdo their ethnic majority peers in educational
aspirations yet struggle to keep pace with their achievements? This article advances the …

A “U-shaped” pattern of immigrants' occupational careers? A comparative analysis of Italy, Spain, and France

I Fellini, R Guetto - International Migration Review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The international literature hypothesized a “U-shaped” pattern of immigrants' occupational
trajectories from origin to destination countries due to the imperfect transferability of human …

Status loss: The burden of positively selected immigrants

P Engzell, M Ichou - International Migration Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Immigrants experience an ambiguous social position: on the one hand, they tend to be
positively selected on resources from the origin country; on the other, they often occupy the …

Immigrant occupational mobility: Longitudinal evidence from Spain

H Simón, R Ramos, E Sanromá - European Journal of Population, 2014 - Springer
This article examines the occupational mobility of immigrants between their countries of
origin and Spain on the basis of one of the few surveys available internationally with …

Being highly skilled and a refugee: Self-perceptions of non-European physicians in Sweden

K Mozetič - Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Both in popular imaginings as well as in migration scholarship, migrants are generally
placed into different categories. We know, for instance, of refugees, family migrants …

Going up or going down? Occupational mobility of skilled migrants in Australia

S Ressia, G Strachan, J Bailey - Asia Pacific Journal of Human …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Skilled migration programs are now widespread among western settler societies, but little is
known about the recent outcomes of skilled migrants. Using a feminist framework and …

Onward migration: The transnational trajectories of Iranians leaving Sweden

M Kelly - 2013 - diva-portal.org
Abstract Kelly, M. 2013. Onward Migration: The Transnational Trajectories of Iranians
Leaving Sweden. Department of Social and Economic Geography. Geographica 1. 334 pp …

Educational mismatch and health status among foreign-born workers in Sweden

AC Dunlavy, AM Garcy, M Rostila - Social Science & Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Foreign-born workers have been shown to experience poorer working conditions than
native-born workers. Yet relationships between health and educational mismatch have been …