OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-199X (online)
DOI :
10.1787/1815199x
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
 

The Integration of Immigrants into the Labour Market

The Case of Sweden You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Georges Lemaître1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

Publication Date
21 Feb 2007
Bibliographic information
No.:
48
Pages
52
DOI
10.1787/235635254863

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The current situation regarding the integration of immigrants in the labour market in Sweden is the consequence of a number of factors and developments. The past fifteen years have seen a higher share of humanitarian migration in Sweden than in the past. This is a form of migration for which labour market integration appears to be slower than for other forms of migration in all countries. At the same time there has been a growing diversification of migration away from "Western" countries to those with a greater cultural distance...
JEL Classification:
  • J15: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J21: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
  • J61: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
  • J62: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility
  • J68: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Public Policy
  • J7: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor Discrimination
  • J8: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor Standards: National and International