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Migrants from Afghanistan on the Swedish Labour Market

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  • Andersson, Fredrik W.

    (Statistics Sweden)

  • Wadensjö, Eskil

    (Stockholm University)

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The number of immigrants to Sweden has increased significantly in the last two decades. In 1990, 9 percent of the population was born abroad. Just over 60 percent of them were born in Finland, Norway and Denmark. Thirty years later, the corresponding figure of foreign born is 20 percent. The composition has also changed. Many have arrived as refugees mainly from countries outside Europe until the great wave of refugees from Ukraine in 2022. We concentrate in this article on one group, those who have come from Afghanistan, and examined how it has gone for them to establish themselves in the labour market in Sweden.

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  • Andersson, Fredrik W. & Wadensjö, Eskil, 2024. "Migrants from Afghanistan on the Swedish Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 17562, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17562
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    Keywords

    Swedish labour market; employment; migrants; Afghanistan;
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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