This report presents the results of a feasibility study on the employment trajectories of
regularised third-country nationals in the European Union (EU).

The aims of the feasibility study were twofold: (1) to study the feasibility of implementing a comparative quantitative survey of regularised third-country nationals in seven EU countries (Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden), based on a review of relevant literature, expert interviews and a qualitative pilot study of regularised migrants, and (2) to examine the basic features and dynamics of post-regularisation labour market trajectories based on the primary and secondary data collected in the course of the feasibility study.

The pilot study involved altogether 100 qualitative interviews with both regularised and non-regularised third-country nationals in an irregular situation, the latter serving as a comparison group. In addition, expert interviews with over 40 policy experts, civil society representatives and academics
were conducted in the various countries.

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