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The Grandchildren of Immigrants : Employment, Earnings and Receipt of Social Assistance

This paper studies the employment rates, earnings and social assistance of grandchildren to the immigrants that came to Sweden before 1960. The results indicate that there are differences regarding employment, earnings and social assistance between some of the third-generation immigrant groups and the third-generation native groups, especially when it comes to employment rates. No differences were however found for the grandchildren of immigrants from outside of Europe, but around 90 percent of them came from North America and many were return migrants. One conclusion from this paper is that differences in labor market outcomes between immigrant groups and natives may exist over several generations and that immigration policy may have very long lasting effects.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:vxu-5506
Date January 2009
CreatorsErik, Hedlin
PublisherVäxjö universitet, Ekonomihögskolan, EHV
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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