Highly educated immigrants find a job more difficult – NU.nl

Figures from the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) show that there is significant differences between population groups.

“At a low education was of non-Western origin last year’s 20.2 percent unemployment, at 9.2 percent of the natives of this level, “the statistics office concluded.

Among the highly educated unemployment figures are much lower. About 3.4 percent of the indigenous population with a high education level was last year without work, compared with 8 percent of highly educated non-western immigrants.

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That low educated immigrants relative are more often unemployed, according to the researchers not because they are less likely to work. However, they would lose quickly their jobs.

educated plays so bad that “non-western immigrants with a college or university degree less quickly find work than natives.”

According to CBS taking differences as the level of education is lower down between immigrants and natives. “At the lower educated is the difference between immigrants and natives in finding work after three months, the smallest.”

By: Reuters