June 15, 2023
Thought this new OECD report on the integration of immigrants might be of interest. Indicators of Immigrant Integration: Settling In presents a comprehensive international comparison of the integration outcomes for immigrants and their children in OECD, EU and selected other countries, across 83 indicators covering key dimensions, including employment, education, housing, health, civic engagement and social integration.
It says that over the past years, international migration and the integration of migrants have gained centre stage in the policy agenda of many OECD and EU countries. Migrants are helping to fill key skills gaps and contribute to the economy of host countries. Monitoring the progress made on the integration of migrants and identifying the challenges that lie ahead is key.
Over the past decade, the overall situation of migrants’ integration has improved in many areas. This is the case, in particular, for integration in the labour market and a further promising development is that the education outcomes of children of immigrants have improved. Participation of children of immigrants in pre-school has risen almost everywhere. But challenges remain: immigrants still have lower employment rates than their native-born peers. If immigrants were to find employment as easily as the native-born, an additional 2.4 million people would work and contribute to the economy in the EU alone.
Likewise, if immigrants’ poverty levels were like those of the native-born, almost 10 million people would lift themselves out of poverty, OECD-wide. Furthermore, more than one in six immigrants live in overcrowded accommodation in the EU – a rate that is 70% higher than that of the native-born, and this gap has widened over the past decade. Particularly worrisome is that more migrants perceive that they are discriminated against now than was the case ten years ago.
The report says that investing in integration and inclusion policies pays off: the evidence shows that integration is possible, and beneficial for migrants and their families, but also for our economies and societies; equally, failure to integrate is costly. The background of shrinking working populations and growing labour shortages in many countries means that further efforts are needed to integrate migrants and their families.
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Thought this new OECD report on the integration of immigrants might be of interest. Indicators of Immigrant Integration: Settling In presents a comprehensive international comparison of the integration outcomes for immigrants and their children in OECD, EU and selected other countries, across 83 indicators covering key dimensions, including employment, education, housing, health, civic engagement and social integration.
It says that over the past years, international migration and the integration of migrants have gained centre stage in the policy agenda of many OECD and EU countries. Migrants are helping to fill key skills gaps and contribute to the economy of host countries. Monitoring the progress made on the integration of migrants and identifying the challenges that lie ahead is key.
Over the past decade, the overall situation of migrants’ integration has improved in many areas. This is the case, in particular, for integration in the labour market and a further promising development is that the education outcomes of children of immigrants have improved. Participation of children of immigrants in pre-school has risen almost everywhere. But challenges remain: immigrants still have lower employment rates than their native-born peers. If immigrants were to find employment as easily as the native-born, an additional 2.4 million people would work and contribute to the economy in the EU alone
Likewise, if immigrants’ poverty levels were like those of the native-born, almost 10 million people would lift themselves out of poverty, OECD-wide. Furthermore, more than one in six immigrants live in overcrowded accommodation in the EU – a rate that is 70% higher than that of the native-born, and this gap has widened over the past decade. Particularly worrisome is that more migrants perceive that they are discriminated against now than was the case ten years ago.
The report says that investing in integration and inclusion policies pays off: the evidence shows that integration is possible, and beneficial for migrants and their families, but also for our economies and societies; equally, failure to integrate is costly. The background of shrinking working populations and growing labour shortages in many countries means that further efforts are needed to integrate migrants and their families.