This article aims at analysing gender inequality in occupational mobility of Argentines immigrants in Spain. The data source is the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes, 2007 (ENI: National survey about immigrants, 2007). The paper verifies the hypothesis of the existence of a "U" shape trend in labour mobility from the last job position in Argentina to the last one registered in Spain through the survey. Results partially refuse the hypothesis. After emigration, immigrants experiment a downward mobility that is not balanced by a following ascending mobility. Because of their starting better position, the initial downward mobility among women is more intense, as the upward mobility in Spain, even though it doesn't compensate for the status loss, due to emigration. Gender and ethnic origin appear as the more significant stratification factors in the human capital endowment. © 2018 Centro Studi Emigrazione. All rights reserved.

Occupational mobility Social stratification Argentine immigrants Spain gender inequality

labor migration occupation Spain labor mobility gender relations gender issue Latino people Argentinidae gender disparity womens status immigrant population