Emilio Reyneri
Biographic Data
| ID | 705653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilio Reyneri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilio |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyneri |
| SIGNATURE | REYNERI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8712-2689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 338 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
De la economía sumergida a la devaluación profesional: Nivel educativo e inserción en el mercado de trabajo de los inmigrantes en Italia
Este artículo examina la contradicción que está en el fondo de las políticas de inmigración italianas y españolas entre las llamadas a la integración y la marginalidad asociada con el estatus temporal y contingente de la inmigración. Argumento aquí que esta tensión es estructural y refleja una contradicción subyacente en la economía política de estas sociedades postfordistas. En la segunda parte de este artículo examino esta misma tensión en la p…
Migrazioni e mercato del lavoro. Novità e continuità in quasi 50 anni di ricerca sociale: Un punto di vista
Come trovare un lavoro. Una storia italiana
Dopo aver sinteticamente illustrato come è cambiata la regolazione normativa delle assunzioni in Italia dall'inizio del secolo scorso, l'articolo presenta come sono cambiati i modi di trovare lavoro negli ultimi 50 anni grazie a un'indagine longitudinale retrospettiva Istat. Con scarse relazioni con i mutamenti normativi, i principali cambiamenti sono stati: una lenta riduzione dei lavori trovati grazie a parenti, amici e conoscenti e per contro …
Poor Returns to Origin-Country Education for Non-Western Immigrants in Italy: An Analysis of Occupational Status on Arrival and Mobility
Previous research on the Italian case has shown that non-Western immigrants are very likely to hold low-qualified jobs and that their occupational mobility chances are rather poor, which suggests low returns to education. In this paper, we investigate whether, and to what extent, immigrants’ different areas of origin moderate the returns to educational degrees obtained in the origin country. Data from a survey on the immigrant population (carried…
Ethnic penalties in the transition to and from unemployment: A West European perspective
The gap between unemployment rate of immigrants and that of natives varies across West European countries. This article aims at explaining these differences by taking into account economic and institutional characteristics of labour markets and by adopting a dynamic perspective, that is, disentangling the risk of being unemployed into two different risks: that of entering unemployment and that of remaining in long-term unemployment. From the anal…
Labour Market Penalties of New Immigrants in New and Old Receiving West European Countries
Over the past two decades, all European societies have experienced continued and increasing migrations, albeit with very different intensities and characteristics. Our focus is on new immigrants ‐‐ those who have come from abroad in the past 15 years ‐‐ in both old and new receiving West European countries. Comparative analyses on this issue are rather weak as the literature on immigrant integration in the labour market is well‐established in the…
Low Unemployment and Bad Jobs for New Immigrants in Italy
The article analyses the incorporation of immigrants into the Italian labour market and the difficulties they encounter in accessing both employment and qualified occupations. The analysis is based on the Italian Labour Force Survey and highlights the fact that the great majority of immigrants entering Italy are hardly disadvantaged in comparison to Italians as regards the risk of unemployment, but, in contrast, they are highly disfavoured as reg…
De la economía sumergida a la devaluación profesional: Nivel educativo e inserción en el mercado de trabajo de los inmigrantes en Italia (From Underground Economy to Occupational Downgrading: Educatio…
El articulo comienza argumentando que la inmigracion contemporanea a Italia, asi como la que llega al resto de paises del sur de Europa, esta motivada, entre otras razones, por la demanda del mercado de trabajo de los sistemas economicos de acogida. En el marco de politicas de inmigracion restrictivas, una economia sumergida bien establecida promueve la inmigracion no autorizada, pero pasa a satisfacer la demanda de trabajo regular, aunque en los…
Immigrants in a segmented and often undeclared labour market
This article develops a systematic analysis of available data on foreign workers in the Italian economy. Their presence reflects the fragmented character of Italian labour markets and the particular importance in Italy of the 'hidden economy'. These factors alone explain why Italy experiences simultaneously a shortage of labour and high labour costs, from which the demand for foreign labour has resulted. The study uses both official data and the …
Education and the occupational pathways of migrants in Italy
Most migrants who enter Italy are not needy and poorly-educated people from rural societies; rather, they are either middle-class or highly-educated youths from large cities. Survey data show that nearly 60 per cent of immigrants have attained at least an upper-secondary school certificate, although differences among countries of origin are wide. On the basis of fieldwork carried out in Milan it is possible to draw up a fourfold typology of immig…
Immigration and the Underground Economy in New Receiving South European Countries: Manifold Negative Effects, Manifold Deep-rooted Causes
An in-depth study led us to show that the underground economy had a quite crucial role in shaping contemporary migratory movements towards southern European countries. An overwhelming majority of migrants were working in an underground economy, at least for a while, although only a few as ‘ethnic businessmen’, but they did not constitute the cause of this phenomenon which is endogenous. On the contrary, we are going to stress four main negative e…
The Mass Legalization of Migrants in Italy: Permanent or Temporary Emergence from the Underground Economy
Most migrants entered Italy without a residence permit and were legalized afterwards. The three legalization campaigns over ten years were the largest in Europe. However, even when migrants became entitled to regular employment, a large proportion of them went on taking unregistered jobs, thereby running the risk of failing to renew their permits. Measures aimed at making migrant workers emerge from their illegal status as well as from the underg…
The role of the underground economy in irregular migration to Italy: Cause or effect
As three mass legalisations have revealed, migrants in Italy were predominantly staying on without a permit and without being entitled to pursue regular work. It was further uncovered that many legal migrants carried out unregistered work in agriculture, building, housekeeping, street trading, small manufacturing firms and within urban services. The huge involvement of migrant workers in the underground economy is often seen as an indicator of an…
Le marché du travail au-delà de l'alternative entre macro-contraintes et micro-rationalité. A propos des stratégies des travailleurs bénéficiaires de la Cassa Integrazione Guadagni en Italie
The results of Italian studies of the Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, a fund that provides benefits to workers in big firms who are laid off but not actually dismissed, are subjected to theories about labor market segmentation, the job-search, and the perfectly informed actor's logic. Since none of these theories accounts for observations, cultural and biographical variables are taken into consideration. They lead us to see work as something other t…
Return Migration and Sending Areas: From the Myth of Development to the Reality of Stagnation
Temporary emigration from Italy to more developed economies implies that migrants will return home with years of employment still to come. It was thought that returning migrants would benefit Italys economy by 1) upgrading industrial skills 2) importing management skills and and entrepreneurial spirit and 3) bringing home capital; now it is realized that this does not happen. Occupationally migrants are usually downwardly mobile in countries of e…
Labour Market Penalties of New Immigrants in New and Old Receiving West European Countries
Over the past two decades, all European societies have experienced continued and increasing migrations, albeit with very different intensities and characteristics. Our focus is on new immigrants ‐‐ those who have come from abroad in the past 15 years ‐‐ in both old and new receiving West European countries. Comparative analyses on this issue are rather weak as the literature on immigrant integration in the labour market is well‐established in the…
Low Unemployment and Bad Jobs for New Immigrants in Italy
The article analyses the incorporation of immigrants into the Italian labour market and the difficulties they encounter in accessing both employment and qualified occupations. The analysis is based on the Italian Labour Force Survey and highlights the fact that the great majority of immigrants entering Italy are hardly disadvantaged in comparison to Italians as regards the risk of unemployment, but, in contrast, they are highly disfavoured as reg…
The role of the underground economy in irregular migration to Italy: Cause or effect
As three mass legalisations have revealed, migrants in Italy were predominantly staying on without a permit and without being entitled to pursue regular work. It was further uncovered that many legal migrants carried out unregistered work in agriculture, building, housekeeping, street trading, small manufacturing firms and within urban services. The huge involvement of migrant workers in the underground economy is often seen as an indicator of an…
Immigrants in a segmented and often undeclared labour market
This article develops a systematic analysis of available data on foreign workers in the Italian economy. Their presence reflects the fragmented character of Italian labour markets and the particular importance in Italy of the 'hidden economy'. These factors alone explain why Italy experiences simultaneously a shortage of labour and high labour costs, from which the demand for foreign labour has resulted. The study uses both official data and the …
Ethnic penalties in the transition to and from unemployment: A West European perspective
The gap between unemployment rate of immigrants and that of natives varies across West European countries. This article aims at explaining these differences by taking into account economic and institutional characteristics of labour markets and by adopting a dynamic perspective, that is, disentangling the risk of being unemployed into two different risks: that of entering unemployment and that of remaining in long-term unemployment. From the anal…
Immigration and the Underground Economy in New Receiving South European Countries: Manifold Negative Effects, Manifold Deep-rooted Causes
An in-depth study led us to show that the underground economy had a quite crucial role in shaping contemporary migratory movements towards southern European countries. An overwhelming majority of migrants were working in an underground economy, at least for a while, although only a few as ‘ethnic businessmen’, but they did not constitute the cause of this phenomenon which is endogenous. On the contrary, we are going to stress four main negative e…
The Mass Legalization of Migrants in Italy: Permanent or Temporary Emergence from the Underground Economy
Most migrants entered Italy without a residence permit and were legalized afterwards. The three legalization campaigns over ten years were the largest in Europe. However, even when migrants became entitled to regular employment, a large proportion of them went on taking unregistered jobs, thereby running the risk of failing to renew their permits. Measures aimed at making migrant workers emerge from their illegal status as well as from the underg…
Poor Returns to Origin-Country Education for Non-Western Immigrants in Italy: An Analysis of Occupational Status on Arrival and Mobility
Previous research on the Italian case has shown that non-Western immigrants are very likely to hold low-qualified jobs and that their occupational mobility chances are rather poor, which suggests low returns to education. In this paper, we investigate whether, and to what extent, immigrants’ different areas of origin moderate the returns to educational degrees obtained in the origin country. Data from a survey on the immigrant population (carried…
Education and the occupational pathways of migrants in Italy
Most migrants who enter Italy are not needy and poorly-educated people from rural societies; rather, they are either middle-class or highly-educated youths from large cities. Survey data show that nearly 60 per cent of immigrants have attained at least an upper-secondary school certificate, although differences among countries of origin are wide. On the basis of fieldwork carried out in Milan it is possible to draw up a fourfold typology of immig…
De la economía sumergida a la devaluación profesional: Nivel educativo e inserción en el mercado de trabajo de los inmigrantes en Italia
Este artículo examina la contradicción que está en el fondo de las políticas de inmigración italianas y españolas entre las llamadas a la integración y la marginalidad asociada con el estatus temporal y contingente de la inmigración. Argumento aquí que esta tensión es estructural y refleja una contradicción subyacente en la economía política de estas sociedades postfordistas. En la segunda parte de este artículo examino esta misma tensión en la p…
De la economía sumergida a la devaluación profesional: Nivel educativo e inserción en el mercado de trabajo de los inmigrantes en Italia (From Underground Economy to Occupational Downgrading: Educatio…
El articulo comienza argumentando que la inmigracion contemporanea a Italia, asi como la que llega al resto de paises del sur de Europa, esta motivada, entre otras razones, por la demanda del mercado de trabajo de los sistemas economicos de acogida. En el marco de politicas de inmigracion restrictivas, una economia sumergida bien establecida promueve la inmigracion no autorizada, pero pasa a satisfacer la demanda de trabajo regular, aunque en los…
Return Migration and Sending Areas: From the Myth of Development to the Reality of Stagnation
Temporary emigration from Italy to more developed economies implies that migrants will return home with years of employment still to come. It was thought that returning migrants would benefit Italys economy by 1) upgrading industrial skills 2) importing management skills and and entrepreneurial spirit and 3) bringing home capital; now it is realized that this does not happen. Occupationally migrants are usually downwardly mobile in countries of e…
Le marché du travail au-delà de l'alternative entre macro-contraintes et micro-rationalité. A propos des stratégies des travailleurs bénéficiaires de la Cassa Integrazione Guadagni en Italie
The results of Italian studies of the Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, a fund that provides benefits to workers in big firms who are laid off but not actually dismissed, are subjected to theories about labor market segmentation, the job-search, and the perfectly informed actor's logic. Since none of these theories accounts for observations, cultural and biographical variables are taken into consideration. They lead us to see work as something other t…
The Mass Legalization of Migrants in Italy: Permanent or Temporary Emergence from the Underground Economy
Most migrants entered Italy without a residence permit and were legalized afterwards. The three legalization campaigns over ten years were the largest in Europe. However, even when migrants became entitled to regular employment, a large proportion of them went on taking unregistered jobs, thereby running the risk of failing to renew their permits. Measures aimed at making migrant workers emerge from their illegal status as well as from the underg…
The role of the underground economy in irregular migration to Italy: Cause or effect
As three mass legalisations have revealed, migrants in Italy were predominantly staying on without a permit and without being entitled to pursue regular work. It was further uncovered that many legal migrants carried out unregistered work in agriculture, building, housekeeping, street trading, small manufacturing firms and within urban services. The huge involvement of migrant workers in the underground economy is often seen as an indicator of an…
Immigration and the Underground Economy in New Receiving South European Countries: Manifold Negative Effects, Manifold Deep-rooted Causes
An in-depth study led us to show that the underground economy had a quite crucial role in shaping contemporary migratory movements towards southern European countries. An overwhelming majority of migrants were working in an underground economy, at least for a while, although only a few as ‘ethnic businessmen’, but they did not constitute the cause of this phenomenon which is endogenous. On the contrary, we are going to stress four main negative e…
Immigrants in a segmented and often undeclared labour market
This article develops a systematic analysis of available data on foreign workers in the Italian economy. Their presence reflects the fragmented character of Italian labour markets and the particular importance in Italy of the 'hidden economy'. These factors alone explain why Italy experiences simultaneously a shortage of labour and high labour costs, from which the demand for foreign labour has resulted. The study uses both official data and the …
Education and the occupational pathways of migrants in Italy
Most migrants who enter Italy are not needy and poorly-educated people from rural societies; rather, they are either middle-class or highly-educated youths from large cities. Survey data show that nearly 60 per cent of immigrants have attained at least an upper-secondary school certificate, although differences among countries of origin are wide. On the basis of fieldwork carried out in Milan it is possible to draw up a fourfold typology of immig…
De la economía sumergida a la devaluación profesional: Nivel educativo e inserción en el mercado de trabajo de los inmigrantes en Italia (From Underground Economy to Occupational Downgrading: Educatio…
El articulo comienza argumentando que la inmigracion contemporanea a Italia, asi como la que llega al resto de paises del sur de Europa, esta motivada, entre otras razones, por la demanda del mercado de trabajo de los sistemas economicos de acogida. En el marco de politicas de inmigracion restrictivas, una economia sumergida bien establecida promueve la inmigracion no autorizada, pero pasa a satisfacer la demanda de trabajo regular, aunque en los…
Labour Market Penalties of New Immigrants in New and Old Receiving West European Countries
Over the past two decades, all European societies have experienced continued and increasing migrations, albeit with very different intensities and characteristics. Our focus is on new immigrants ‐‐ those who have come from abroad in the past 15 years ‐‐ in both old and new receiving West European countries. Comparative analyses on this issue are rather weak as the literature on immigrant integration in the labour market is well‐established in the…
Low Unemployment and Bad Jobs for New Immigrants in Italy
The article analyses the incorporation of immigrants into the Italian labour market and the difficulties they encounter in accessing both employment and qualified occupations. The analysis is based on the Italian Labour Force Survey and highlights the fact that the great majority of immigrants entering Italy are hardly disadvantaged in comparison to Italians as regards the risk of unemployment, but, in contrast, they are highly disfavoured as reg…
Ethnic penalties in the transition to and from unemployment: A West European perspective
The gap between unemployment rate of immigrants and that of natives varies across West European countries. This article aims at explaining these differences by taking into account economic and institutional characteristics of labour markets and by adopting a dynamic perspective, that is, disentangling the risk of being unemployed into two different risks: that of entering unemployment and that of remaining in long-term unemployment. From the anal…
Poor Returns to Origin-Country Education for Non-Western Immigrants in Italy: An Analysis of Occupational Status on Arrival and Mobility
Previous research on the Italian case has shown that non-Western immigrants are very likely to hold low-qualified jobs and that their occupational mobility chances are rather poor, which suggests low returns to education. In this paper, we investigate whether, and to what extent, immigrants’ different areas of origin moderate the returns to educational degrees obtained in the origin country. Data from a survey on the immigrant population (carried…
Come trovare un lavoro. Una storia italiana
Dopo aver sinteticamente illustrato come è cambiata la regolazione normativa delle assunzioni in Italia dall'inizio del secolo scorso, l'articolo presenta come sono cambiati i modi di trovare lavoro negli ultimi 50 anni grazie a un'indagine longitudinale retrospettiva Istat. Con scarse relazioni con i mutamenti normativi, i principali cambiamenti sono stati: una lenta riduzione dei lavori trovati grazie a parenti, amici e conoscenti e per contro …
Migrazioni e mercato del lavoro. Novità e continuità in quasi 50 anni di ricerca sociale: Un punto di vista
De la economía sumergida a la devaluación profesional: Nivel educativo e inserción en el mercado de trabajo de los inmigrantes en Italia
Este artículo examina la contradicción que está en el fondo de las políticas de inmigración italianas y españolas entre las llamadas a la integración y la marginalidad asociada con el estatus temporal y contingente de la inmigración. Argumento aquí que esta tensión es estructural y refleja una contradicción subyacente en la economía política de estas sociedades postfordistas. En la segunda parte de este artículo examino esta misma tensión en la p…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (10 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economy (5 works)