abstract: 'This article examines the labour market outcomes of immigrants in Spain, a country that has become a migration destination only since the end of the 1990s. Differentiating between first and second generation of immigrant descent, we compare the labour market involvement of the main ethnic groups with the majority group. One particular focus is to understand which minorities have been hit the hardest by the Great Recession. To this end, we use data from the European Union Labour Force Survey for the years 2008 and 2014, and more specifically the two ad-hoc modules on the labour market situation of migrants. Analysing men and women separately, we run a set of multivariate logistic regression models to control for compositional differences. In this way, we examine ethnic gaps not only in labour force participation but also in the degree of underutilisation of human capital, measured as workers'' level of over-education as well as the incidence of involuntary part-time employment. Our results show that while most origin groups do not show significantly lower employment participation than the majority group, the employment quality of immigrants in terms of involuntary part-time work and over-education is substantially worse, especially since the crisis.' affiliation: 'Ramos, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Social Sci, E-28903 Getafe, Spain. Fernandez-Reino, Marina; Radl, Jonas; Ramos, Maria, Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Social Sci, E-28903 Getafe, Spain. Radl, Jonas, WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, D-10785 Berlin, Germany.' author: Fernandez-Reino, Marina and Radl, Jonas and Ramos, Maria author-email: 'marina.fernandez-reino@compas.ox.ac.uk jradl@clio.uc3m.es maria.ramos@uc3m.es' author_list: - family: Fernandez-Reino given: Marina - family: Radl given: Jonas - family: Ramos given: Maria da: '2023-09-28' doi: 10.17645/si.v6i3.1441 files: [] issn: 2183-2803 journal: SOCIAL INCLUSION keywords: 'employment participation; ethnic inequality; involuntary part-time; migrant assimilation; over-education' keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; FOREIGN-BORN; PART-TIME; CLASSIFICATION; ASSIMILATION; TRAJECTORIES; TEMPORARY; EARNINGS; WORK' language: English number: '3' number-of-cited-references: '46' orcid-numbers: 'Radl, Jonas/0000-0002-0372-5782 Radl, Jonas/0000-0002-0372-5782 Fernandez-Reino, Marina/0000-0003-3146-0336' pages: 48-63 papis_id: eb1b613ae52abb6f57cbe778cbddb706 ref: Fernandezreino2018employmentoutcomes researcherid-numbers: 'Radl, Jonas/CAH-9472-2022 Radl, Jonas/E-8263-2018 Fernandez-Reino, Marina/G-4889-2019' times-cited: '4' title: 'Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation?' type: Article unique-id: WOS:000440211000004 usage-count-last-180-days: '0' usage-count-since-2013: '9' volume: '6' web-of-science-categories: Social Issues; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary year: '2018'