The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Pieter Bevelander () and Ravi Pendakur ()
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Pieter Bevelander: Malmö University
Ravi Pendakur: University of Ottawa

No 6924, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual taxation records. The 2007 Swedish Register Data includes information on all legal permanent residents. Using standard regression methods we compare labour force outcomes of age-sex-schooling-place of birth cohorts looking specifically at non-economic (family reunion and refugee intake) immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. We find that the employment and earning trajectories of the selected non-economic migrant groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden.

Keywords: labour market integration; family reunion; immigrants; refugees; comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2012-10
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Published - published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014, 40 (5), 689-709.

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