Migrant and Satisfied? The Ethnic Gap in Job Satisfaction in the Italian Labor Market

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https://doi.org/10.59670/ml.v20i2.2277

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Migration, job satisfaction, ethnic gap, labor market

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Job satisfaction is a desirable outcome both at the organizational and at the individual level. Anyway, little is known about the gap between natives’ and migrants’ job satisfaction, which represents a critical issue in the light of the increasing presence of foreigner workers in the Western labor markets. In order to shed light on this issue, we estimate a number of OLS models to quantify sex-specific natives’ and migrants’ job satisfaction, by exploiting a particularly detailed Italian source of data (the Survey of Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens). We find that being a migrant is not associated per se with any premium or penalty in job satisfaction. When we control for the different socio-demographic features and job characteristics of natives and migrants, it turns out that migrants are more satisfied than natives. Hence, it emerges in Italy a job satisfaction paradox based on the worker’s migratory status.

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2023-03-22

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Piccitto, G., & Avola, M. (2023). Migrant and Satisfied? The Ethnic Gap in Job Satisfaction in the Italian Labor Market. Migration Letters, 20(2), 137–146. https://doi.org/10.59670/ml.v20i2.2277

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