Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western countries. The analyses focus on graduates from secondary vocational education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an OaxacaBlinder decomposition. Our findings suggest that there exist persistent ethnic employment gaps. The ga ... Show more
Authors: Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle
Published: Bonn, Germany, IZA, 2020
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: [33] p.
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