Post-industrial division of labour as a systemic barrier for immigrants in the Swedish labour market
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Summary, in English
ABSTRACT. Differences in labour force participation and unemployment rates between indigenous populations and immigrants are common throughout Europe. But the gap seems to be particularly wide in Sweden. Based on studies of work places that traditionally employed large numbers of immigrants, but where they are now declining, it is argued that a driving force behind this process of exclusion is to be found in technological and organisational changes. These changes seem to be more pervasive in the Swedish labour market than in other economies in Europe. What is sometimes called the “Swedish model of working life” has turned into the systemic exclusion of immigrant labour.
Department/s
Publishing year
2003
Language
English
Pages
39-50
Publication/Series
Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography
Volume
85 B
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Topic
- Human Geography
Keywords
- unemployment
- new work practices
- labour market transition
- labour market
- Discrimination
- immigrants
- exclusion
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1468-0467