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On the economic prospects of non-Western migrants in Europe

Tijana Prokic-Breuer et al.

Journal of Population Economics2026https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-026-01167-xarticle
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Abstract

Many European countries are concerned about the economic integration of low-skilled non-Western migrants. This study investigates skill disparities and their intergenerational persistence by employing a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data linking math and language skills of parents and their children. We find that skills of non-Western migrants strongly converge towards those of natives; group differences in math and language are reduced by 60 to 70% over one generation. Ethnic externalities that may delay group convergence indefinitely appear not to be important. This suggests that the currently observed skill gaps of non-Western migrants in Europe are unlikely to persist for those migrants.

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@article{tijana2026,
  title        = {{On the economic prospects of non-Western migrants in Europe}},
  author       = {Tijana Prokic-Breuer et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Population Economics},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-026-01167-x},
}

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