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Second-Generation Immigrants in the Swedish Labour Market

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Lars Behrenz
Mats Hammarstedt
Jonas Månsson
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This study focuses on the labour market performance among second-generation immigrants in Sweden. One motivation behind the analysis is that it gives insight into the long-term consequences of immigration. Labour market performance relates the probability of having a job, referred to here as a threshold effect and to the differences in income from work, given that a person is in the market and is referred to as an income from work effect. We have shown that a clear threshold effect of being a second-generation immigrant exists and that different groups of second-generation immigrants perform differently in the Swedish labour market.

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Volume (Year): 21 (2007)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 157-174
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Keywords: Second-generation immigrants; threshold effect; income from work; labour market position;

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  1. Ekberg, Jan & Hammarstedt, Mats & Shukur, Ghazi, 2007. "SUR estimation of earnings differentials between three generations of immigrants and natives," CAFO Working Papers 2007:7, Centre for Labour Market Policy Research (CAFO), School of Management and Economics, Växjö University. [Downloadable!]
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