Working Through Barriers

Download or read book Working Through Barriers written by Irena Kogan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role that institutional characteristics of host countries play in labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research, it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors and underlying mechanisms which affect immigrant integration in the fifteen nations that comprise the European Union. The author analyzes selected EU countries in depth, investigating the extent to which immigrants have succeeded or failed in different institutional contexts.