%0 Journal Article
%T The migrant in the market: Care penalties and immigration in eight liberal welfare regimes
%A Naomi Lightman
%J Journal of European Social Policy
%@ 1461-7269
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0958928718768337
%X This article disaggregates high- and low-status care work across eight liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using Luxembourg Income Study data, descriptive and multivariate analyses provide support for a ¡®migrant in the market¡¯ model of employment, notwithstanding variation across countries. The data demonstrate a wage penalty in both high- and low-status care employment in several liberal welfare regimes, with the latter (service jobs in health, education and social work) more likely to be part-time and situated in the private sector. Migrant care workers are found to work disproportionately in low-status, low-wage types of care and, in some cases, to incur additional wage penalties compared to native-born care workers with equivalent human capital
%K Care work
%K immigration
%K liberal welfare regimes
%K wage stratification
%K social inequality
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0958928718768337