Do Domestic Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Ethnic Labor Market Gaps in Sweden

Lena Nekby and Gülay Özcan ()
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Gülay Özcan: Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS, Postal: Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, http://www.ne.su.se/

No 2007:3, SULCIS Working Papers from Stockholm University, Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS

Abstract: The importance of investing in host country-specific human capital such as domestic language proficiency and domestic education is often cited as a determining factor for the labor market success of immigrants. This suggests that entirely domestic educations should even out the playing field providing equal labor market opportunities for natives and immigrants with similar (domestic) educations. This study follows a cohort of students from Swedish compulsory school graduation in 1988 until 2002 in order to document ethnic differences in education, including grades and field of education, and subsequent labor market outcomes. Results indicate both initial differences in youth labor market status and long term differences in employment rates, most notably for those with Non-European backgrounds. Differences in level or field of domestic education cannot explain persistent employment gaps. However, employment gaps are driven by differences among those with secondary school only. No employment or income gaps are found for the university educated.

Keywords: Ethnic minorities; Education; Employment; Income; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J15 J71 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2007-05-25
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eec, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published as Nekby, Lena and Gülay Özcan, 'Do Host Country Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Immigrant-Native Labor Market Gaps in Sweden' in Journal Of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 2008, pages 168-196.

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