(Wiley, 2024-10) Muñoz Comet, Jacobo Fernando; Arcarons, Albert F.; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-255X
This article analyses the impact of the crises on the level of inequality between native and migrant origin children in twenty-first-century Spain. We use microdata from the Spanish Labour Force Survey (2000–2022) to study the risk for migrant and native children of living in a household with no working adults. We hypothesize that the assimilation of the immigrant population—after more than two decades in the country—might have contributed to reducing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Results show that the 2008 crisis substantially increased the gap between migrant and native children, while the impact of the pandemic has been milder. Moreover, social origin has a stronger protective effect for native children compared with children with a migrant background, especially during periods of economic downturn. However, we find that among children of low social origin, migrant children are less likely to live in a household with no working adults.
