Impact of human captial on labour market integration of Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic: Differences between the first and second generations of immigrants

Khanh Hoa Nguyen

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

The study aimed at investigating the labour market integration of Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic in the association with selected human capital characteristics. It attempted to find out the commonly chosen sectors of economic activities, employment rate, working hours, occupation status based on average ISEI-88 score and proportion of reaching to upper-middle social EGP class (Ganzeboom & Treiman 1996). A special focus was on analysing the differences between the first and the second generation on how their integration in the labour market was influenced by the selected human capital determinants (education level, Czech language level, duration of residence and gender).A survey with a multiple-choice questionnaire was implemented together with in-depth interviews by the snowball sampling technique. The multiple linear regression analysis was used to find out the impact of selected human capital variables on the occupational status based on the ISEI–88 scores. Frequency distribution was used for descriptive analysis. Chi-squared and Mann-Withney U tests were applied to analyse the association of employment rate, occupational status, working hours with gender and generation of Vietnamese immigrants. Independent samples T-test was used to find the differences between the first and the second generation in ISEI-88 occupational status score.The results revealed that the education level had an impact only on the occupation status of the second generation while the duration of residence has the most significant influence on that of the first generation. The female Vietnamese immigrants were less integrated than males in terms of employment rate and occupation status. Overall, Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic are mainly small business holders, mostly in retail trade and are expanding to more diverse sectors of economic activities. It is understandable since the second generation and one-and-a-half generation with fluent Czech and better education could reach better occupations.

Keywords

Vietnamese immigrants, labour market integration, Czech Republic, human capital, immigrant's generation

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 26. 4. 2019

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: Ing. Petra Chaloupková, Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Fakulta tropického zemědělství

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Tropické zemědělství / International Development and Agricultural Economics