Summary - Promising policies for integration on the labour market

Authors: Jaco Dagevos, Egbert Jongen and Sander Muns

Image: ©Hans van Rhoon

This report analyses policy options aimed at improving the position on the Dutch labour
market of people with a migration background, and thus at narrowing the gap relative to
people without a migration background. There is still every need for this: notwithstanding
the substantial differences in labour market and income position between individual
migrant groups – with little or no difference in the position of some groups compared
with the population without a migration background – the overall picture is one of large
and persistent differences between people with and without a migration background.
migrants and non-migrants compared with other European countries.