naa a22 4500 510809375 CHVBK 20180411083435.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12134-012-0264-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12134-012-0264-2 Zorlu Aslan Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 14, 1018 TV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants in The Netherlands [Elektronische Daten] [Aslan Zorlu] This article examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves significantly with the duration of residence. The extent of this initial disadvantage and the rate of adjustment vary across immigrant groups according to the transferability of skills associated with their cultural and linguistic distance from Dutch society as predicted by the theory of immigrant occupational mobility. Most notably, Turks and Moroccans face the greatest initial dip and achieve the highest rate of adjustment, while the opposite holds for Caribbean and Western immigrants. Our results are robust to three alternative measures of occupational status. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Ethnic minorities nationallicence Quality of jobs nationallicence Skill transferability nationallicence Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/4(2013-11-01), 711-731 1488-3473 14:4<711 2013 14 12134 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0264-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0264-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zorlu Aslan Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 14, 1018 TV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/4(2013-11-01), 711-731 1488-3473 14:4<711 2013 14 12134 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer