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http://www.itinerainstitute.org/en/library/external-publications-presentations/_paper/un-employment-of-foreign-workers-in-belgium/
(Un)employment of foreign workers in Belgium
29 December 2008
At the international level, Belgium is one of the countries where the disparities between immigrants and nationals on the labour market are the highest: lower employment rate and higher unemployment rate than nationals, more temporary and partial work and overrepresentation in the blue-collar workforce. What is to blame? Several factors like training differences, asymmetric information or unemployment traps. This report from de General Directorate for Employment therefore implicitly concludes that a good activation policy would be a good integration policy.

http://www.emploi.belgique.be/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=21642

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