Figures from the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) show that there is significant differences between population groups.
“Around 20.2 percent of all people who were low-skilled, and from a non-Western origin were unemployed last year, compared with 9.2 percent of the natives of this level,” concludes the statistics office.
Among highly educated people, unemployment figures are much lower. About 3.4 percent of the indigenous population with a high education level went without work last year, compared with 8 percent of highly educated non-Western immigrants.
Losses
According to the researchers, the fact that low-skilled immigrants are more likely to be unemployed, is not because they are less likely to work. Rather, they quickly lose their jobs. However, in the case of highly educated immigrants, it's more that “non-western immigrants with a college or university degree are less likely to find work than natives.”
According to the organisation, the differences between immigrants and natives decreases as the level of education is lower. “There is less difference between immigrants and natives with lower education when finding work after three month.”