Report Shows Poor Immigrant Integration Outcomes Worldwide

CIS reports:

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), whose mission is to "promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world", released the third edition of its series on immigration integration that started in 2012. The new joint OECD-EU report, "Settling in 2018: Indicators of Immigrant Integration", lays down a comprehensive international comparison of integration outcomes of immigrants and their children across all European Union (EU) countries and OECD countries. (The OECD encompasses the world's developed countries, including most of the EU, plus a few emerging economies.)

There's more:

"OECD-wide, 27% (59 million) of people aged 15-34 have a migrant background (i.e. are either foreign-born or have at least one foreign-born parent)… EU-wide, 21% of this age group have a migrant background (25.5 million)."

"Over the last decade, the steepest increase OECD-wide came in the share of native-born with two foreign-born parents, driven chiefly by the United States."

"Main countries of residence of youth with a migrant background are the United States (17.1 million), Germany and France (3.4 million each), the United Kingdom and Canada (2.4 million each)."

"Despite noticeable progress over the last decade, a significant share of pupils with a migrant background lack basic skills at the age of 15."

"While there has been progress in educational outcomes, this is less evident with respect to employment. In all EU countries, except Portugal and Lithuania, young immigrants and the native-born offspring of immigrants are less likely to be in work than their peers with native-born parents. The overall employment gap between the native-born of native- vs foreign-born parentage is 6 percentage points. As for child-arrival immigrants, they are 8 points less likely to have jobs."

Imagine that.