IMISCOE International Migration, Integration & Social Cohesion

Discrimination, diversity and equality on the labour market

Date: November 2007

The abundance of empirical studies and their accompanying statistics demonstrates how Europe’s immigrant and ethnic minority unemployment rates are structurally higher and their work conditions worse than those faced by a country’s native population. Also young people of ethnic minorities and new groups of workers from the new EU member states and from outside of the EU fail to receive equal employment opportunities.

The main objective of this cross cluster working group was to set up a cross cluster policy workshop on Equal Opportunities on the Labour Market  to be held in Brussels in June 2007. This workshop is meant as a first step in setting up a structural collaboration between the IMISCOE network and the European social partners.  The workshop will have three main themes: a) discrimination on the labour market; b) gender and the labour market; c) diversity in labour organisations.

Deliverables

Title Type Date
Equal opportunities on the labour market for immigrant people and ethnic minorities IMISCOE Working Paper 2008
Diversity, equality and discrimination in working life IMISCOE Policy Brief 2008