Over-Education Amongst the Children of Immigrants in Sweden

Dahlstedt, Inge

doi:10.1515/njmr-2015-0003

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“…As is to be expected, native-born Poles face much smaller differentials. Indeed, in Canada and Australia, native-born Polish men and women have basically the same probability of employment and similar wages after controlling for basic personal characteristics (see Pendakur & Pendakur, 1998, 2015and Forrest & Kusek, 2016. Similarly, studies from the early and mid 2000s in Sweden find that Poles fare better than immigrants from outside Europe but still face substantial penalties in the labour market (Bevelander, 2000;Rosholm et al, 2006).…”

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“…Where the place of Polish immigrants is studied, it is often in the context of more global work that encompasses a large number of groups (see for example : Bevelander, 1999;Drinkwater et al, 2010;Kogan, 2010;Levrau et al, 2013). Work that looks at outcomes for the second generation is even rarer (Dahlstedt, 2015;Pendakur & Pendakur, 1998, 2015.…”

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Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns

Pendakur

Bevelander

2021

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Using a combination of logit, and OLS regressions we ask if the labour force outcomes for Polish immigrants differ across two immigration policy regimes (Canada and Sweden). Specifically, we compare the employment and earnings prospects of Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden using data that is similar in quality and timing. We find that in general, Polish immigrants, while facing substantial penalties compared to native-born workers fare better in Canada than in Sweden in terms of employment and income. As expected, second generation Poles fare much better than their immigrant counterparts in terms of employment and earnings differentials and have similar outcomes to the native-born majority in both countries. Membership in the EU fundamentally changed migration flows from Poland. In light of this we also look at how post-2004 Polish migrants have fared in both Canada and Sweden.

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Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns

Pendakur

Bevelander

2021

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“…Because parents, siblings, relatives and co-ethnics are important members of individuals' social networks, these disadvantages are generally transmitted to the descendant generation (cf. Dahlstedt 2015). For example, depending on the social and economic background of family members, relatives and friends, images of what educational and occupational goals are possible to set, and actions taken to achieve such goals may vary between individuals (Wicht 2016;Fernandez-Kelly 2008).…”

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Door openers? Public officials as supportive actors in the labour market participation of descendants of immigrants in Sweden

Aslan

Sjöberg

Wikström

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Nordic Social Work Research

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The aim of this study was to examine how employed descendants of immigrants in Sweden perceive that interactions with public officials have benefitted their occupational aspirations and attainments. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with twelve female and nine male descendants of immigrants, followed by an abductive thematic analysis. Applying a theoretical framework of social capital, we found three main influences of public officials from respondents' perspectives: 1) connectedness, 2) supporting personal goals and focusing on possibilities, and 3) mediation of knowledge and information. We discuss and analyse the symbolic resources deriving from these influences, e.g. increased motivation and self-belief, and conceptualize these resources as social capital contributing to the occupational aspirations and attainments of immigrants' descendants. KEYWORDS Descendantsof immigrants; public officials; social work; social capital; labour market CONTACT Pinar Aslan pinar.aslan@hig.se NORDIC SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH https://doi.

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“…Youth, migrants and refugees are particularly affected by precarious work (Nolan 2009;Walther 2006). Underemployment, insecurity and exclusion are some of the consequences of this type of employment (Dahlstedt 2015). Thus, not only the employment status but also the type and prospects of employment of UMs are very important for their labour market well-being.…”

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Refugee Youth Who Arrived in Sweden as Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children: <i>Education and Labour Market Well-being</i>

Çelikaksoy¹,

Wadensjö

2019

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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In recent years, Sweden has been one of the largest receiving countries of unaccompanied minors, compared to other EU member states. Recent studies have increasingly stressed the strength, resilience and agency of unaccompanied minors, despite the traumatic experiences and challenges they face. In this article, we study unaccompanied minors in the Swedish education system and the labour market using register-based data covering the period 2003-2014. We compare this group with accompanied minors and persons of the same age born in Sweden to investigate the mechanisms that facilitate and/or hinder their labour market well-being. We find that unaccompanied minors have problems in completing secondary school but do well in the labour market with regard to finding employment. Our results draw attention to the multifaceted processes that facilitate and/or hinder their labour market well-being.

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Over-Education Amongst the Children of Immigrants in Sweden

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns

Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns

Door openers? Public officials as supportive actors in the labour market participation of descendants of immigrants in Sweden

Refugee Youth Who Arrived in Sweden as Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children: <i>Education and Labour Market Well-being</i>

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