What can be learned from the Maple Leaf? : A comparative study between Sweden and Canada regarding perceived institutional discrimination of minority groups and their views on the labor market.

Description

This study aims to investigate whether perceived institutional discrimination among job seekers within minority groups in Sweden is higher than in Canada. Perceived institutional discrimination is argued to be determined by cultural differences, more specifically, cultural Tight-Looseness and perceived everyday discrimination. Questionnaires and interviews were conducted both in Swedish and Canadian work centres. The results were compared with views on the perceived openness of the labour market. Results indicate that higher perceived institutional discrimination is related to the labour market being perceived as more closed for minority groups in Sweden while the same results could not be seen in Canada.

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1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-202640

Tags

labor market

institutional discrimination

minority groups

cultural tightness

Canada

Sweden

arbetsmarknad

institutionaliserad diskriminering

minoritetsgrupper

kultur

Kanada

Sverige

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-202640
Date	January 2013
Creators	Walian, Martin, Christensen, Ruben
Publisher	Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess