Male second-generation migrants with a non-European background

The reason for looking at men only is that the labour force participation rate of those leaving education differs more according to ethnic background among men than among women. In addition, women's labour force participation is affected more strongly by other factors, such as whether they have a partner and/or children, which makes the effect of the prevailing economic conditions more difficult to identify among women.

The reason for looking only at the second generation is that this generation is made up of people who were born in the Netherlands and who generally completed their education in the Netherlands. They therefore speak Dutch as a first language and have educational qualifications which are universally recognised in the Netherlands, and data on this group is available from registers. The reason for looking only at second-generation migrants with non-European roots is that they include the four most widespread groups of migrants in the Netherlands: people with a Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese or Dutch Caribbean background. They tend to occupy a less favourable position in the labour market. Members of the fifth widespread group of migrants in the Netherlands, those with an Indonesian background, are older on average and left education earlier; figures on this group are therefore not shown separately in this study.

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