While substantial efforts have been made towards description of integration policies in
Europe, a systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of these policies is still missing. This presentation
will try to bridge this gap. Its first objective will be to examine the coverage of immigrants’
integration policies by linking MIPEX index of immigrants’ labour market mobility with the actual
representation of immigrants in specific integration measures. The paper’s second objective is to
assess effects of integration policies for immigrants’ labour market integration. Two policy tools to be
scrutinized encompass host-country labour market training courses and labour market counselling
targeting newcomers. Analyses are based on the micro-level data provided by the EULFS ad hoc
module on the labour market situation of migrants. Sufficient number of cases of recent immigrants
(arriving between 1998 and 2008) allowed detailed analyses for the following countries: Austria,
Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK, Cyprus
and Portugal. Propensity score matching is applied as an analytic strategy to allow differentiating
between selection into treatment (e.g., training participation) and effects of treatment for a number of
labour market outcomes.
