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| Author: | Sarvimäki, M. |
| Title: | Assimilation to a welfare state: labor market performance and use of social benefits by immigrants to Finland |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2011 : VOL. 113:3, p. 665-688 |
| Index terms: | labour markets employment social services earnings immigration minority groups integration OECD Nordic countries Finland |
| Freeterms: | social benefits |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In this paper, the economic performance of immigrants is documented in a country characterized by an extensive welfare state and a short immigration history. Upon arrival, immigrants to Finland have notably lower employment rates than comparable natives. While they experience rapid employment growth, only men from OECD countries catch up with natives. In spite of the persisting employment and earnings differences btw. non-OECD immigrants and natives, the differences in income transfers disappear in approximately 20 years. The employment gaps btw. immigrants and natives are larger in Finland than in Australia, Canada, or the United States (USA). |
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