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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Hybride Erwerbskonstellationen und berufliche Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten im IT-Crowdwork (2026) · doi

  Future research could examine how the interaction of institutions across multiple origin and host countries—each with varying degrees of occupational specificity—shapes the returns to occupation-specific credentials. Future research could investigate other dimensions to deepen our insights into the importance of institutional similarity for immigrants’ labor market success.

  Keywords: future examine interaction institutions across multiple origin host countries varying degrees occupational specificity shapes returns
• Why are some EU immigrant groups more disadvantaged on the German labor market than others? (2026) · doi

  Future research could examine how the interaction of institutions across multiple origin and host countries—each with varying degrees of occupational specificity—shapes the returns to occupation-specific credentials. Future research could investigate other dimensions to deepen our insights into the importance of institutional similarity for immigrants’ labor market success.

  Keywords: future examine interaction institutions across multiple origin host countries varying degrees occupational specificity shapes returns
• Migrants from Ukraine as an answer to the needs of the Polish labour market - the perspective of border enterprises (2026) · doi

  These results add value by providing firm-level evidence from border regions—an under-researched context—linking employers’ demand with migrant integration and highlighting institutional infrastructures - qualification recognition, skills databases as decisive complements to short-term administrative simplification.

  Keywords: value providing firm level evidence border regions researched context linking employers demand migrant integration highlighting
• Determinants of demand for young professionals with tertiary education amidst migration resulting from the war in Ukraine (2023) · doi

  Our research contributes to the understanding of labour markets by identifying key determinants of professional success for migrants with tertiary education, which can also act as an obstacle to integration into the host countries’ labour markets if the required competencies are lacking.

  Keywords: labour markets contributes understanding identifying determinants professional success migrants tertiary education obstacle integration host countries