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The class attainment and the career mobility of southern italians in northern Italy and in west Germany. A comparison between internal and international migrants
- Source :
- Advances in Life Course Research. 35:11-23
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper studies the class attainment of a single group of migrants, the Southern Italians, to two destinations: Northern Italy and West Germany. It analyses whether the labour market trajectories vary among institutional contexts or follow the same integration pathway across different receiving societies. In doing so, this study expands the literature in two directions. On the one hand, it stresses the importance of macro-features of the host society for studying migrants' integration processes. On the other hand, it highlights similarities and differences between internal and international migration. The paper reports empirical analyses based on the Longitudinal Survey on Italian Households (ILHS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The results show that the inclusion of Southern migrants, both internal and international, took place at lower levels of the class structure. The greater rigidity and the strong emphasis on vocational training of the German labour market pushed Southern migrants into the unskilled urban working class. In Northern Italy, by contrast, the possibility of entering the public sector facilitated their inclusion in the middle classes. Despite those differences, in both destinations, Southern migrants had fewer opportunities of upward social mobility than the native population.
- Subjects :
- business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Public sector
0507 social and economic geography
Destinations
Social class
Social mobility
language.human_language
0506 political science
Northern italy
German
Geography
Working class
Vocational education
050602 political science & public administration
language
Demographic economics
Life-span and Life-course Studies
business
050703 geography
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10402608
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in Life Course Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........85f9dba05e16827a29b83d61dbb17274