Etnisk diskriminering på den svenska arbetsmarknaden
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis examines the Swedish labour market with a focus on the immigrant part off the population. There are big differences between the immigrant and particular non-European immigrant part off the population and native Swedes. In the first part off this thesis I will show that immigrants in Sweden have a higher rate of unemployment, lower rate off employment, lower wage incomes, higher risk off unemployment and are overrepresented in low skilled, low status jobs. Even when controlling for different factors such as education level, knowledge in the Swedish language, age etc. a big gap remains. In the second part I discuss and analyze different explanatory models for this segregation. I argue that this exclusion off the immigrant part... (More)
- This thesis examines the Swedish labour market with a focus on the immigrant part off the population. There are big differences between the immigrant and particular non-European immigrant part off the population and native Swedes. In the first part off this thesis I will show that immigrants in Sweden have a higher rate of unemployment, lower rate off employment, lower wage incomes, higher risk off unemployment and are overrepresented in low skilled, low status jobs. Even when controlling for different factors such as education level, knowledge in the Swedish language, age etc. a big gap remains. In the second part I discuss and analyze different explanatory models for this segregation. I argue that this exclusion off the immigrant part off the population is largely due to a quite extensive ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labour market. (Less)
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- author
- Etemadi, Shoan
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Etnisk diskriminering, Strukturell diskriminering, Utrikes födda, Arbetsmarknad, Stereotyper, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1326107
- date added to LUP
- 2006-06-19 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-06-19 00:00:00
@misc{1326107,
abstract = {{This thesis examines the Swedish labour market with a focus on the immigrant part off the population. There are big differences between the immigrant and particular non-European immigrant part off the population and native Swedes. In the first part off this thesis I will show that immigrants in Sweden have a higher rate of unemployment, lower rate off employment, lower wage incomes, higher risk off unemployment and are overrepresented in low skilled, low status jobs. Even when controlling for different factors such as education level, knowledge in the Swedish language, age etc. a big gap remains. In the second part I discuss and analyze different explanatory models for this segregation. I argue that this exclusion off the immigrant part off the population is largely due to a quite extensive ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labour market.}},
author = {{Etemadi, Shoan}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Etnisk diskriminering på den svenska arbetsmarknaden}},
year = {{2006}},
}