Adopted Children in the Labour Market — Discrimination or Unobserved Characteristics?

Rooth, Dan-Olof

doi:10.1111/1468-2435.00186

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“…The results indicate that, as expected, segregation at the workplace level is lower for GN immigrants than for GS immigrants. This is indirect evidence in support of previous studies that show that having a nonwhite skin color is a powerful factor explaining difficulties to integrate in the Swedish labor market (Hedberg and Tammaru 2013;Rooth 2002;Rydgren 2004). This finding is usually interpreted as evidence of discrimination by natives.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…However, residential neighborhood-based discrimination is just one aspect of the discrimination faced by immigrants seeking a job; just a mild bias in favor of members of one's own group can result in substantial discrimination of immigrants in the hiring process (Arrow 1973;Barth et al 2012;Rydgren 2004). In Sweden, a study by Rooth (2002) demonstrated that even adopted children who were born in the GS but who have been raised in Swedish native families, have attended Swedish schools, and are part of native social networks perform significantly worse in the labor market than natives. Other studies confirm that visible minorities from the GS face significant difficulties in the Swedish labor market (Attström 2007;Hedberg and Tammaru 2013).…”

Section: Discrimination Effectmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants

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This is the published version of a paper published in Demography. Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Strömgren, M., Tammaru, T., Danzer, A., van Ham, M., Marcińczak, S. et al. (2014) Factors shaping workplace segregation between natives and immigrants. Abstract Research on segregation of immigrant groups is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas toward other important places, such as the workplace, where immigrants can meet and interact with members of the native population. This article examines workplace segregation of immigrants. We use longitudinal, georeferenced Swedish population register data, which enables us to observe all Demography (2014) We compare estimates from ordinary least squares with fixed-effects regressions to quantify the extent of immigrants' self-selection into specific workplaces, neighborhoods, and partnerships, which may bias more naïve ordinary least squares results. In line with previous research, we find lower levels of workplace segregation than residential segregation. The main finding is that low levels of residential segregation reduce workplace segregation, even after we take into account intermarriage with natives as well as unobserved characteristics of immigrants' such as willingness and ability to integrate into the host society. Being intermarried with a native reduces workplace segregation for immigrant men but not for immigrant women.

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Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants

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“…[5][6][7] Previous studies from the US and UK have demonstrated ethnic discrimination can limit access to healthcare services among minority ethnic groups. [7][8][9][10][11] However, there is a scarcity of studies on the effects of other forms of discrimination on access to healthcare services and other determinants of health. In Sweden 12 and the US 13 racial discrimination has been associated with limited participation in the labour market and unfavourable socioeconomic circumstances.…”

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Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage and refraining from seeking medical treatment in Sweden

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Merlo

Boström³

et al. 2007

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

109

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Study objective: To analyse the association between perceived discrimination and refraining from seeking required medical treatment and the contribution of socioeconomic disadvantage. Design and setting: Data from the Swedish National Survey of Public Health 2004 were used for analysis. Respondents were asked whether they had refrained from seeking required medical treatment during the past 3 months. Perceived discrimination was based on whether respondents reported that they had been treated in a way that made them feel humiliated (due to ethnicity/race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability). The Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index (SDI) was developed to measure economic deprivation (social welfare beneficiary, being unemployed, financial crisis and lack of cash reserves). Participants: Swedish population-based survey of 14 736 men and 17 115 women. Main results: Both perceived discrimination and socioeconomic disadvantage were independently associated with refraining from seeking medical treatment. Experiences of frequent discrimination even without any socioeconomic disadvantage were associated with three to nine-fold increased odds for refraining from seeking medical treatment. A combination of both frequent discrimination and severe SDI was associated with a multiplicative effect on refraining from seeking medical treatment, but this effect was statistically more conclusive among women (OR = 11.6, 95% CI 8.1 to 16.6; Synergy Index (SI) = 2.0 (95% CI 1.2 to 3.2)) than among men (OR = 12, 95% CI 7.7 to 18.7; SI = 1.6 (95% CI 1.3 to 2.1)). Conclusions: The goal of equitable access to healthcare services cannot be achieved without public health strategies that confront and tackle discrimination in society and specifically in the healthcare setting.

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“…Other studies perform different types of more direct tests of discrimination in Sweden (for example, Rooth (2001) and Åslund and Rooth (2005)). These studies focus on the labour market outcomes of certain groups of immigrants, while we consider that attitudes may affect their migration decision as well.…”

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Income, amenities and negative attitudes

Waisman

Larsen

2016

IZA J Migration

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We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse the consequences of negative attitudes on refugees' utility from labour income and amenities. We find that attitudes towards immigrants are important: while they affect mainly the refugees' quality of life, they also affect their income. We estimate the utility effects of negative attitudes for refugees with different levels of education and gender. We also analyse how the size of the refugees' networks relate to their quality of life and income as well as how negative attitudes towards immigration and networks interact.

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Adopted Children in the Labour Market — Discrimination or Unobserved Characteristics?

Cited by 36 publications

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Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants

Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants

Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage and refraining from seeking medical treatment in Sweden

Income, amenities and negative attitudes

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