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Pascal Beckers
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Position: ESPP Fellow
Email address: pascal.beckers@governance.unimaas.nl
Educational background
July 2003 MSc Economics/ Intl.
Management, Maastricht University,
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Main Research Question:
How important is the integration of
immigrants for their economic
performance in the labour market or
as entrepreneurs in the Netherlands?
Description of Dissertation
Topic:
The Netherlands, like many Western
countries, is faced with large flows
of people from developing countries.
Commonly, this population group is
particularly disadvantaged in the
labour market. Participation rates
are low and there is a substantial
earnings gap to natives and
immigrants originating from Western
countries. While there is a strong
tendency for immigrants to live
together in neighbourhoods with
people from their country of origin,
residential integration with the
native population might be a crucial
ingredient for success. This is the
starting point for my analysis,
which will investigate possible
implications of immigrant geographic
clustering on economic success of
immigrant workers and entrepreneurs.
Predominantly US-based research
findings have consistently
documented a negative relation
between immigrant group
concentration and labour market
performance. However, it is far from
clear, first, as to whether these
findings also hold for immigrant
labour market performance in Europe
and, second, as to whether
concentration actually has similar
implications for economic
performance of workers and
entrepreneurs alike. By combining
both quantitative and qualitative
research using Dutch Administrative
Data and carrying out own field
research, I will tackle this
imperative question of the day as
multiculturalism is becoming the
norm rather than the exception.
List of Papers:
Segregation and labour market
outcomes of immigrants – Evidence
from random assignment in the
Netherlands (presented at LSE
Workshop, April 2007, and SOLE
Annual Conference, Chicago, May
2007) – forthcoming in June 2007.
Residential segregation and
performance implications for ethnic
entrepreneurship in the Netherlands
– forthcoming in September 2007.
Health Care Policy and Provisions to
Illegal Immigrants in Germany: A
Comparative Approach – (presented at
11th International Metropolis
Conference, Lisbon, October 2006;
PICUM Newsletter 02/2007) –
“Download of Working Paper”
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