2009
DOI: 10.1086/593964
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Renouncing Personal Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings

Abstract: We study the effects of surname change to Swedish-sounding or neutral names on earnings for immigrants from Asian/African/Slavic countries. To estimate this effect, we exploit the variation resulting from different timing of name changes across individuals during the 1990s. The results imply that there is a substantial increase in annual earnings after a name change, no effects on earnings prior to a name change, and no positive general effects of a new name for other groups that renounced a foreign name. Base… Show more

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“…Likaså tenderar personer med namn som upplevs som osvenska att väljas bort i rekryteringsprocesser (Arai & Skogman Thoursie 2009, Bursell 2012. Att väljas bort och ha svårigheter att få kvalificerade arbeten var något som flera lotsar och samhällskommunikatörer berättade om.…”
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“…Likaså tenderar personer med namn som upplevs som osvenska att väljas bort i rekryteringsprocesser (Arai & Skogman Thoursie 2009, Bursell 2012. Att väljas bort och ha svårigheter att få kvalificerade arbeten var något som flera lotsar och samhällskommunikatörer berättade om.…”
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“…Bland dessa är rasifierade och invandrade personer överrepresenterade (Arai & Skogman Thoursie 2009, Behtoui & Neergaard 2009, Bursell 2012, Grönlund 2004, Mulinari P. 2004, Neergaard 2009). Genom att Mansour kan, som han säger, användas till det mesta finns det fördelar för företaget att inte anställa honom på en viss tjänst, utan i stället använda honom där han behövs.…”
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“…One possible explanation for this is that there is an initial penalty for descendants in terms of finding it more difficult to obtain employment. Such penalties could be due to discriminatory practices (Carlsson & Rooth 2007), a non-Swedish sounding name (Arai & Skogman Thoursie 2009) and signalling problems (Spence 1973). However, once inside the labour market, there is no or very little penalty (although there is a bigger penalty for male descendants than for female descendants).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In 2010, over 3,500 xenophobic/racist hate crimes were reported (Brå, 2011). There is also evidence of labor market disparity (Bygren, 2010;Duvander, 2001;Nekby et al, 2009;OECD, 2008) and discrimination (Arai et al, 2008;Arai and Thoursie, 2009). …”
Section: Context: Immigrants In Swedenmentioning
confidence: 99%