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IMMIGRANTS IN THE CROATIAN LABOR MARKET: DO THEY SUBSTITUTE NATIVES?

In order to theoretically assess the potential impact of immigrants on different labor market outcomes in Croatia, it is important to compare the labor market profile of the natives and immigrants. 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. We give an additional insight into the labor market profiles of immigrants and investigate the possibility of “displacement effect”, in which immigrants substitute natives on the labor market. 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, natives, labor market, Croatia

This paper has been presented online at the International inter-department conference „30 Years of Transition – Results, Challenges and Perspectives“organized by the Department of Economic Theory, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb from 19 to 21 November 2020. Revised abstract is published in the Knjiga sažetaka - Međunarodna interkatedarska konferencija„30 godina tranzicije –rezultati, izazovi i perspektive“Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, available at: https://www.docdroid.net/kgi3DlK/miket-book-of-abstracts-v2-pdf. The paper was not submitted or published elsewhere.