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ABSTRACT
Migrants usually experience a downward mobility in their host country’s economy and are over-represented among lower status jobs. The present study contributes to the knowledge on migrant occupation mobility in Italy, assuming a longitudinal perspective and focusing on two aspects: first, the entry of migrants into the Italian labour market and, second, the working trajectories of migrants in Italy, reflecting the role of the first step in determining the following trajectory and migrants’ strategies.
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Notes
1. For a review of the topic, see Reyneri and Fullin (Citation2011), Simon, Ramos, and Sanromà (Citation2014) and Scherer (Citation2004).
2. See Section 5 for a definition of ethnic niche.
3. For a complete list of centres of aggregation, see ISMU, Censis, and IPRS (Citation2010).
5. Labour Force Survey elaborations presented in Strozza et al. (Citation2009) and the author’s own elaborations on data from the ISTAT dataset (http://stra-dati.istat.it/Index.aspx).
6. The Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes (ENI-2007) by the Spanish National Statistical Office has the same structure and limits; however, it has been successfully used to analyse the same issue by Simon, Ramos, and Sanromà (Citation2014) and Vidal-Coso and Miret-Gamundi (Citation2014).
7. The first and the second categories were grouped due to their low frequency in the sample.
8. The sequence analysis was performed in Stata using a package implemented by Brisnsky-Fay, Kohler, and Luniak (Citation2006).
9. According to Model’s definition (1993), ethnic niche refers to an over-representation of a particular group in an occupational status or sector of activity.
10. To identify the ethnic niche, we proceed as done by Stanek and Veira (Citation2012).
11. Only for a few migrants did the time of the interview coincide with the fifth year while the coincidence in cases of a 10-year period was nearly perfect.
12. I tested that the Odd Ratios are significantly different also in case of North East as a reference category.
13. I performed all pairwise comparisons and none were statistically significant. Results are available upon request.