TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Simón, Hipólito
AU  - Ramos, Raul
AU  - Sanromá, Esteban
        TI  - Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case
        PY  - 2011/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5581
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5581
        AB  - We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze this kind of mobility. The obtained evidence shows that, in general, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the strong downgrading they experience when entering the Spanish labour market and their low improvement in the following years.
        KW  - Spain
KW  - occupational mobility
KW  - immigration
        ER  -