Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67178 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6924
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
refugees
immigrants
family reunion
labour market integration
comparison
JEL: 
F22
J61
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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