the gap in unemployment rates between the foreignbom and the natives is wide figure foreignbom women show a particularly weak attachment to the labour market as they are more often inactive than native women the foreignbom have also lower income than the natives and thus are more exposed to poverty risk those coming from outside the european union and through the family and asylum channels who made up more than of immigrant flows between and are less educated and younger than the natives which make them more likely to suffer from labour market exclusion oecd b table