This publication underlines inter alia the following points:

• In most countries and most indicators, immigrants – especially those born outside the EU – and their children lag behind the native-born and their peers with native-born parents.
   
• There has been substantial progress over the last decade especially in labour market integration of immigrants, despite the disproportionate decline at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis followed by a quick recovery to pre-2020 levels. This improvement is attributable to a mix of factors such as better integration policies, more favourable labour market conditions than a decade ago, and higher educational levels of recent arrivals. There was also some improvement in the host-country language mastery of recent arrivals in Europe and the United States.
   
• Immigrants have generally not, however, caught up with the native-born. More than one-third of all foreign-born in the EU have not attained levels beyond primary education, almost twice the proportion among the native-born. What is more, immigrants struggle to find employment where they fully use their skills.
   
• About one in four young people under the age of 35 is either foreign-born or has foreign-born parents. The outcomes of the native-born children of immigrants aged 15 to 34 follow similar trends as those of foreign-born adults.
   
• In EU countries, public perception about migrants and their contribution in society is often at odds with available evidence. For example, while there was an increase in the share of highly educated among nonEU migrants, this was not perceived as such in most countries.

For further information, please read the publication here.