The male immigrant–native employment gap in Sweden: migrant admission categories and human capital
| Autor: | Pieter Bevelander, Henrik Emilsson, Marc-André Luik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Market integration
Labour economics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Transferability Human capital 0506 political science Register data 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Business 050207 economics Family reunification Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Population Research. 35:363-398 |
| ISSN: | 1835-9469 1443-2447 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12546-018-9206-y |
| Popis: | Despite having a celebrated labor market integration policy, the immigrant–native employment gap in Sweden is one of the largest in the OECD. From a cross-country perspective, a key explanation might be migrant admission group composition. In this study we use high-quality detailed Swedish register data to estimate male employment gaps between non-EU/EES labour, family reunification and humanitarian migrants and natives. Moreover, we test if differences in human capital are able to explain rising employment integration heterogeneity. Our results indicate that employment integration is highly correlated with admission category. Interestingly, differences in human capital, demographic and contextual factors seem to explain only a small share of this correlation. Evidence from auxiliary regressions suggests that low transferability of human capital among humanitarian and family migrants might be part of the story. The article highlights the need to understand and account for migrant admission categories when studying employment integration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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