abstract: 'Research shows that highly skilled migrant women often have poor quality

  jobs or no employment. This paper addresses two research gaps. First, it

  provides a comparative perspective that examines differences and

  commonalities in the quality of employment of four highly skilled

  groups: migrant- and non-migrant women and men. Four statistical

  indicators are examined to grasp these differences: employment rates,

  income, adequacy of paid work, and employment status. The results

  highlight the role of gender and country of birth: Swiss-born men

  experience the best employment quality, and foreign-born women the

  worst. Second, it offers a family perspective to study how the

  employment trajectories of skilled migrant women develop in time and

  place in relation to their partners''. The qualitative life-course

  analysis indicates that skill advancement is more favourable for migrant

  and non-migrant men than for migrant and non-migrant women. However,

  skill advancement for migrant women depends greatly on the strategies

  enacted by domestic partners about how to divide paid employment and

  family work, and where to live. The statistical study draws on recent

  data from Swiss labour market surveys. The life-course analysis focuses

  on 77 biographical interviews with tertiary-educated individuals.

  Participatory Minga workshops are used to validate the study results.'
affiliation: 'Riano, Y (Corresponding Author), Univ Neuchatel, Inst Geog, CH-2000
  Neuchatel, Switzerland.

  Riano, Yvonne, Univ Neuchatel, Inst Geog, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland.'
article-number: '5'
author: Riano, Yvonne
author-email: yvonne.riano@unine.ch
author_list:
- family: Riano
  given: Yvonne
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3390/admsci11010005
eissn: 2076-3387
files: []
journal: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
keywords: 'migration; highly skilled; labour market outcomes; quality of

  employment; employment trajectories; employment inequalities; family;

  gender inequality; life-course analysis; participatory research; mixed

  methods'
keywords-plus: GENDER; LABOR; PARTICIPATION; FAMILY; WORK; STRATEGIES; PENALTY
language: English
month: MAR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '51'
orcid-numbers: Riano, Yvonne/0000-0002-3463-6977
papis_id: f2c3b6576311f67926aa2a3f0e709ce3
ref: Riano2021highlyskilled
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Highly Skilled Migrant and Non-Migrant Women and Men: How Do Differences in
  Quality of Employment Arise?'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000633026900001
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '14'
volume: '11'
web-of-science-categories: Management
year: '2021'