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Feasibility Study on the labour market and immigrants’ trajectories within the European Union
Carmen Munteanu - Communications Coordinator
23 April 2014
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Wien launched at the end of March 2014 the final report "Feasibility Study on the Labour Market Trajectories of Regularised Immigrants within the European Union (REGANE I)". The study, funded by the European Union, was carried out between October 2012 - December 2013 in seven member states and it assesses the impact regularisation has had on employment opportunities for migrants who were in an irregular situation.
Regularisation provides a path to legal residence, either by temporary or by permanent regularisation mechanisms. Regularisation is an important policy tool for many EU countries in responding to the prolonged presence of migrants in an irregular situation. According to the report, in the past two decades at least 3.5 million persons have been regularised in the EU as a whole through time-limited regularisation programmes and several hundred thousand persons have received legal residence status through permanent regularisation mechanisms.
In general the previous research focused on residence regularisation policies, but rather little is known on their impacts, in particular on the effects of regularisation on employment opportunities for individuals. The results of the study indicate that opportunities to improve immigrants’ access to employment through regularisation are shaped by a variety of factors, of which the most important are the recognition of qualifications, access to vocational training, the labour market structure, the welfare system and the migration regime.
Source: ICMPD
Regularisation provides a path to legal residence, either by temporary or by permanent regularisation mechanisms. Regularisation is an important policy tool for many EU countries in responding to the prolonged presence of migrants in an irregular situation. According to the report, in the past two decades at least 3.5 million persons have been regularised in the EU as a whole through time-limited regularisation programmes and several hundred thousand persons have received legal residence status through permanent regularisation mechanisms.
In general the previous research focused on residence regularisation policies, but rather little is known on their impacts, in particular on the effects of regularisation on employment opportunities for individuals. The results of the study indicate that opportunities to improve immigrants’ access to employment through regularisation are shaped by a variety of factors, of which the most important are the recognition of qualifications, access to vocational training, the labour market structure, the welfare system and the migration regime.
Source: ICMPD
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