The native-migrant gap in job quality: An analysis of the French context using decomposition methods

Abstract

During the last decades the concept of job quality (JQ) and immigrant’s assimilation in the labour market has been highly debated in the social science. This paper aims to contribute to this emerging body of research on subjective job quality indicators as a measure of immigrants’ integration in the French labour market through estimation of the differential between native and migrant workers. Focussing on the gap between native and immigrant workers in the French labour market context, we evaluate job quality with subjective indicators related to the working environment, such as whether or not the job tasks entail health risks, physical strains or other drawbacks.