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Immigrants in Croatia: Theoretical Considerations of Composition Effect

The phenomenon of migration is a current social, economic, political and environmental issue with frequent negative connotations of the impact of migrants on a domicile population in a destination country. Although the number of immigrants in Croatia is not comparable in the context of the number of immigrants in other Western European countries, it is important to compare the labor market profile of the natives and immigrants in Croatia in order to theoretically assess the potential impact of immigrants on different labor market outcomes. The profile of immigrants will be analyzed by taking into account several possible definitions of immigrants that are addressed in the literature of migration economics. These definitions are based on different elements i.e. place of birth, citizenship and length of stay in the country. The source of data is the 2015 Labor Force Survey.This paper fills the gap by giving a descriptive analysis between natives and immigrants in Croatia and answering a question whether we can expect structural changes in Croatian domicile population due to immigrants. We give an additional insight into the labor marketprofiles of immigrants and investigate the possibility of “displacement effect”, in which immigrants substitute natives. Given the results, the existence of composition effect in Croatia regarding the labor market status between natives and immigrants cannot be expected although some differences are visible, mainly in the area of income distribution and the distribution of observed groups of population among different activities

immigrants, labor market, natives, Croatia

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