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Actiris, the Brussels Regional Employment Office, developed a study to understand specific barriers facing job seekers by monitoring their national origin. The practice was needed to enhance the understanding of the pathways of jobseekers and their integration into employment, the mechanisms of discrimination based on origin and how it intersects with other variables such as sex, age and education.
Data were provided by the Bank for Social Security register after a political agreement to mobilise the origin variable, leading to the introduction of federal socio-economic monitoring. The study cross-referenced the Actiris jobseekers' database with the data warehouse of the Bank of Social Security register by combining data on the individual's current nationality, their nationality at birth and the nationality at birth of their parents.
The study report produced after the analysis showed the need to cross-reference sex and origin to identify specific employment barriers facing women and men of non-EU origin.
The main challenges were the process of anonymising data from the Bank of Social Security register and the lack of ethnicity data collected by institutions.
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