Working Together for Integration Working Together: Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Sweden (eBook)
204 Seiten
OECD Publishing (Verlag)
978-92-64-25738-2 (ISBN)
This review is the first in a new series on the skills and labour market integration of immigrants and their children. With 16% of its population born abroad, Sweden has one of the larger immigrant populations among the European OECD countries. Estimates suggest that about half of the foreign-born population originally came to Sweden as refugees or as the family of refugees and Sweden has been the OECD country that has had by far the largest inflows of asylum seekers relative to its population. In all OECD countries, humanitarian migrants and their families face greater challenges to integrate into the labour market than other groups. It is thus not surprising that immigrant versus native-born differences are larger than elsewhere, which also must be seen in the context of high skills and labour market participation among the native-born. For both genders, employment disparities are particularly pronounced among the low-educated, among whom immigrants are heavily overrepresented. These immigrants face particular challenges related to the paucity of low-skilled jobs in Sweden, and policy needs to acknowledge that their integration pathway tends to be a long one. Against this backdrop, Sweden has highly developed and longstanding integration policies that mainly aim at upskilling immigrants while temporarily lowering the cost of hiring, while other tools that work more strongly with the social partners and the civil society are less well developed and need strengthening.
This review is the first in a new series on the skills and labour market integration of immigrants and their children. With 16% of its population born abroad, Sweden has one of the larger immigrant populations among the European OECD countries. Estimates suggest that about half of the foreign-born population originally came to Sweden as refugees or as the family of refugees and Sweden has been the OECD country that has had by far the largest inflows of asylum seekers relative to its population. In all OECD countries, humanitarian migrants and their families face greater challenges to integrate into the labour market than other groups. It is thus not surprising that immigrant versus native-born differences are larger than elsewhere, which also must be seen in the context of high skills and labour market participation among the native-born. For both genders, employment disparities are particularly pronounced among the low-educated, among whom immigrants are heavily overrepresented. These immigrants face particular challenges related to the paucity of low-skilled jobs in Sweden, and policy needs to acknowledge that their integration pathway tends to be a long one. Against this backdrop, Sweden has highly developed and longstanding integration policies that mainly aim at upskilling immigrants while temporarily lowering the cost of hiring, while other tools that work more strongly with the social partners and the civil society are less well developed and need strengthening.
Foreword 5
Acknowledgements 7
Table of contents 9
Acronyms and abbreviations 13
Executive summary 15
Assessment and recommendations 19
Chapter 1. Migration in Sweden and the context of integration policy 35
The labour market context 38
The integration context 42
Integration policy 48
Notes 51
References 53
Database references 53
Chapter 2. Settlement of migrants in Sweden and the introduction programme 55
Settlement 56
The introduction programme 66
Notes 79
References 82
Chapter 3. The supply of migrant skills in Sweden 83
Integrating young immigrants into the school system 84
Ensuring all adults have the skills to integrate into society and the labour market 99
Learning the Swedish language 107
Notes 117
References 119
Chapter 4. Strengthening the demand for migrant skills in Sweden 123
Working with employer incentives: giving migrants the chance toprove their skills 125
Tackling discrimination 142
Notes 149
References 152
Chapter 5. Helping migrants find work in Sweden 155
Finding a job: Networks and the Public Employment Service 156
Finding the right job: Recognition, validation and bridging 172
Notes 193
References 196
Annex A. Wage subsidy net cost calculations 199
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.5.2016 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 92-64-25738-1 / 9264257381 |
ISBN-13 | 978-92-64-25738-2 / 9789264257382 |
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