labor market
Job seekers of Cameroonian descent face hiring discrimination in the Swiss labor market, as they must send about 30 percent more applications than candidates of Swiss origin to be invited to an interview. The results of our study suggest that black job seekers are systematically disadvantaged in the Swiss labor
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Recent research focuses on how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants fare in school and in the labor market. While most of these studies point towards a disadvantage for non-natives, less is known about how these people deal with this discrimination and become agents of their own destinies. It may therefore
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In Western countries, we observe that some employers and landlords discriminate against people with a name indicating that they are from a minority group. Research has shown that if you have a name signaling that you are an ‘immigrant’ or belong to an ‘ethnic minority,’ the chances of being invited
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As the level of reported well-being declines worldwide, scholars have started highlighting patterns of well-being at different stages of life and the socio-ecological factors that contribute to producing inequalities to design appropriate prevention and intervention programs, and inform social policies. At the beginning of the 2008 recession, the level of
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De nombreux·ses migrant·e·s peinent à trouver un emploi correspondant à leurs compétences et à leurs aspirations en Suisse. Ils/elles sont contraint·e·s de baisser, de reporter ou de réorienter complètement leurs ambitions professionnelles. Cependant, ces dernières années, les migrant·e·s ont commencé à chercher collectivement à améliorer leur situation et à contester ...
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