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Marina Shapira

Senior Research Fellow
Email: marina.shapira@ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6246
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6239

 

Biographical details

Dr Shapira is a sociologist with strong interests in migration, education and social stratification, and quantitative research methods. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She has been employed since 2004 in the Centre for Educational Sociology, where she was principal investigator in a number of projects on socio-economic inequality, migration and educational inequality, including on the labour market impact of migration and the school and institutional context of the educational disadvantage of migrant children. Her main research interests are in the areas of ethnic social inequalities in education and the labour market, the labour market impact of migration, social mobility, youth transitions and cross-national comparative analysis.

Dr Shapira uses a variety of large scale administrative data sources in her research (for example the Labour Force Survey, Annual Population Surveys, the Scottish Household Survey, census data) and various statistical methods such as multinomial logistic regression, and multilevel modelling.

 

Current and recent research


2009-2010: The Educational Attainment of Migrants in Comparative Perspective: The Importance of Institutional Factors, ESRC.
2007-2008: Understanding Immigration Labour Marker Impact in the UK. ESRC Initiative: Understanding Population Trends and Processes - A Secondary Data Analysis. <http://www.uptap.net/project> and <http://www.uptap.net/project35.html>
2007-2007: Ethnicity and Immigration in Scotland, University of Edinburgh Development Trust Pilot Project.
2006-2007: Immigration, Education and Socio-Economic Inequality. ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
2003-2006: Education and Youth Transitions in England, Wales and Scotland 1984-2002, (ESRC) - with David Raffe, Cathy Howieson, Cristina Iannelli and Jenny Ozga.

 

Selected papers and publications

2009 (forthcoming)
(forthcoming) Trends in the impact of post-compulsory educational qualifications and experience on the occupational attainments of young people in England and Scotland 1986-2001, in R. Becker and A. Hadjar (eds) Expected and Unexpected Consequences of the Educational Expansion in Europe and USA – Theoretical approaches and empirical findings in comparative perspective. Stanford University Press (Studies in Social Inequality Series)

(forthcoming) “Spatial Concentration of Immigrants and Their Impact on Employment opportunities in the UK Labour Market.” In B. Edmonston, J. Raymes and T. Salzmann (eds) Demographic aspects of Migration. VS-Verlag

(forthcoming) “Understanding Labour Market Impact of Immigration in the UK.” In J. Stillwell, N. Finney and M. van Ham (eds) Understanding Population Trends and Processes Volume 3: Ethnicity and Integration, Springer
2008
“A Comparison Between the Modes of Labour Market Incorporation of (former) Soviet Immigrants in the 1970s and in the 1990s.” under review: Research in Stratification and Mobility

“Immigration Labour Market Impact in Israel“ Under review: International Migration Review

“Spatial Concentration of Immigrants and Their Impact on the Wages of British Workers” European Population Congress, Barcelona, July

“Spatial Concentration of Immigrants and Their Impact on Employment opportunities in the UK Labour Market” BURISA/UPTAP workshop, London

“Understanding of the Immigration Impact on the UK Labour Market” Invited talk at the Autumn Meeting on Demographic Aspects of Migration, Nuremberg, October

Labour Market Impact of the Immigration in the UK, CES Briefing No. 47, Edinburgh, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
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“Spatial Concentration of Immigrants and Their Impact on Employment opportunities in the UK Labour Market” invited talk at the Autumn Meeting on Demographic Aspects of Migration, Nuremberg, October

“Understanding of the Labour Market Impact of Immigration in the UK”, presentation at the Joint BURISA/UPTAP Workshop, London, September.

“Spatial Concentration of Immigrants and Their Impact on the Wages of British Workers” European Population Congress, Barcelona, July.
2007
"Trends in Impact of Participation in Post-Compulsory Education on the Labour Market Attainments of Young People in England and Scotland, 1984-2000” Conference on “Expected and Unexpected Consequences of Educational Expansion” Ascona, Switzerland, July

Qualifications Matter: Credentials and the Labour Market Outcomes of Migrants in Israel, CES Briefing No. 41, Edinburgh, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
2006
With Croxford, C. Iannelli, C. Howieson and D. Raffe. Education and Youth Transition across Britain 1984-2002, CES Briefing No. 39, Edinburgh, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh

With D. Raffe, Croxford, C. Iannelli, and C. Howieson (2006) Social-Class Inequalities in Education in England and Scotland, CES Briefing No. 40, Edinburgh, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh
2005
“Trends in Impact of Participation in Post-Compulsory Education on the Labour Market Attainments of Young People in England and Scotland, 1984-2000 ” EQUALSOC meeting, Manheim, November

"Transition from School to Labour Market in England, Scotland and Wales, 1986-2002", paper presented at the EqualSoc Workshop, Mannheim, Germany, November.

"Spatial Determinant of Ethnic Socio-Economic Inequality and the Recent Immigrants' Labour market Impact in Israel", paper presented at the RC28 Conference, Oslo, May.
2004
Labour Market Determinants of Ethnic Opccupational Inequality (under review).

Ethnic Queues in Tripartite Labour Market - Arabs, "Russians" and Oriental Jews in Israel (accepted for publication).

"Operationalization of Split Labour market Concept and its Implication to Study of Ethnic Socio-Economic Inequality", paper presented at the RC28 Conference, Nechatel, Switzerland, May 2004.

"Labour Market Determinants of Ethnic Occupational Inequality in Israel", paper presented at the ISS Annual Conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, February 2004.
2003
"Contextual Effects on Occupational Attainment of Ethnic Minorities in Britain", paper presented at a Sociological Seminar, Nuffield College, Oxford, March 2003 (with Professor Anthony Heath).
2002
"Decomposition of Individual Level Determinants of Ethnic Income Gaps in Israel", paper presented at the DPhil Students Workshop, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, December 2002.
2000
"Internal Migration of Recent Immigrants in Israel", paper presented at an ESRC Workshop, Oxford, September 2004.
1998
"Immigrants and a Large City: The Recent FSU Immigrants in Haifa", paper presented at the Metropolis Annual Conference, Zihron Yaakov, Israel, November 1998 (with Dr G Mesch).