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The value of immigrants' human capital for labour market integration
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO). Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7348-1632
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This dissertation focuses on the productive knowledge and skills, i.e., human capital, that immigrants bring from before immigration, as well as new human capital acquired in the destination country. The four studies included use registry and survey data to consider different aspects of labour market integration in Sweden, analysing how immigrants’ human capital is used and valued in the Swedish labour market, and how this affects labour market outcomes.

Study I, co-authored with Carina Hellgren, analyses the effects of formal recognition of foreign higher education on employment and earnings.

Study II focuses on the value that domestic employers assign to immigrants’ labour market experience from both before and after immigration.

Study III examines the link between experience of self-employment before immigration and the propensity to enter self-employment in the destination country.

Study IV explores immigrants’ occupational mobility, testing whether there is a trade-off between finding employment quickly and attaining a better position.

Overall, the results indicate that origin-country human capital is devalued in the Swedish labour market. Immigrants can, however, get their previous knowledge and skills recognized, complemented with domestic human capital, and put to productive use after immigration. Nevertheless, achieving labour market outcomes either on par with the pre-immigration level or with comparable natives appears difficult for most.

Abstract [sv]

Den här avhandlingen behandlar utrikes föddas produktiva kunskaper och färdigheter, dvs. humankapital. Dels humankapitalet som de har med sig från före migrationen, dels det nya humankapital de tillägnar sig i mottagarlandet. Avhandlingen består av fyra studier som använder register- och enkätdata för att undersöka olika aspekter av arbetsmarknadsintegration i Sverige. Mer specifikt analyseras hur humankapital bland utrikes födda används och värderas på den svenska arbetsmarknaden, samt hur detta påverkar arbetsmarknadsutfall.

Studie I, författad tillsammans med Carina Hellgren, analyserar vilka effekter formellt erkännande av högre utländsk utbildning har på utrikes föddas sysselsättning och inkomst.

Studie II fokuserar på det värde som inhemska arbetsgivare tillskriver utrikes föddas arbetslivserfarenhet, och skiljer på sådan som tillägnats före och efter migrationen.

Studie III prövar sambandet mellan tidigare erfarenhet av egenföretagande och benägenheten att starta eget företag i mottagarlandet.

Studie IV undersöker utrikes föddas yrkesmobilitet, och testar om det råder ett motsatsförhållande mellan snabbt inträde på arbetsmarknaden och nivå av arbetsmarknadsutfall.

Som helhet tyder resultaten på att humankapital från ursprungslandet devalveras på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Utrikes födda kan dock få sina kunskaper och färdigheter erkända samt kompletterade med inhemskt humankapital, och på så sätt nå ett bättre läge på arbetsmarknaden i mottagarlandet. Samtidigt visar resultaten att de flesta utrikes födda har svårt att uppnå arbetsmarknadsutfall i nivå med situationen före migrationen, eller i nivå med jämförbara inrikes födda.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2022. , p. 58
Series
Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences, ISSN 0282-9800 ; 824
Keywords [en]
International migration, Immigrants, Integration, Human capital
Keywords [sv]
Internationell migration, Utrikes födda, Integration, Humankapital
National Category
International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-181724DOI: 10.3384/9789179291181ISBN: 9789179291174 (print)ISBN: 9789179291181 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-181724DiVA, id: diva2:1618026
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2022-01-21, Online through Zoom (contact eva.rehnholm@liu.se) and K2, Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping, Norrköping, 10:15 (English)
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Available from: 2021-12-08 Created: 2021-12-08 Last updated: 2024-01-08Bibliographically approved
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1. The Effects of Recognition of Foreign Education for Newly Arrived Immigrants
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Effects of Recognition of Foreign Education for Newly Arrived Immigrants
2019 (English)In: European Sociological Review, ISSN 0266-7215, E-ISSN 1468-2672, Vol. 35, no 4, p. 506-521Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We analyze the effects of formal recognition of foreign higher education on employment probabilities and earnings for newly arrived immigrants in Sweden. Prior research has found that immigrants have lower returns on education if it was acquired in the country of origin than if it was acquired in the host country. One reason for this is that foreign credentials work poorly as productivity signals and risk-averse employers avoid employees with credentials they do not fully understand. A formal recognition statement can help overcome this problem by providing credible information about the foreign education, thus reducing uncertainty. Data consists of immigrants who, within the first ten years of residence in Sweden, had their foreign degree formally recognized during 2007-2011. Using fixed effects regressions, we estimate the treatment effect of official recognition to be 4.4 percentage points higher probability of being employed, and 13.9 log points higher wage for those with employment. We also find considerable treatment effect heterogeneity across subcategories of immigrants from different regions of origin, with different reasons for immigration and who obtained recognition during different economic conditions. Our conclusions are that the mechanism of employer uncertainty is real, and that recognition does reduce it. But as the signal of foreign education becomes better, other mechanisms such as human capital transferability problems and quality differences, and the ability to use foreign human capital, become more salient, leading to heterogeneous effects.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
National Category
International Migration and Ethnic Relations Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-162084 (URN)10.1093/esr/jcz011 (DOI)000493513400005 ()
Available from: 2019-11-19 Created: 2019-11-19 Last updated: 2024-01-08Bibliographically approved
2. Linking Self-Employment Before and After Migration: Migrant Selection and Human Capital
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Linking Self-Employment Before and After Migration: Migrant Selection and Human Capital
2019 (English)In: Sociological Science, E-ISSN 2330-6696, Vol. 6, p. 609-634Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In linking self-employment before and after migration, the often-cited home-country self-employment hypothesis states that immigrants who come from countries with large self-employment sectors are themselves more likely to have been self-employed and hence have a higher propensity for self-employment in their destination country. Using Swedish data, this study shows that the first part of the hypothesis, that origin-country average rates of self-employment can be used to approximate individual experience, is false; but the second part, the connection between self-employment before and after migration, is true if the measurement is done on the individual level. Migrants who have been self-employed before migration accumulate entrepreneurial human capital, making future self-employment a more desirable labor market alternative vis-a-vis wage employment. But because of migrant selection, this association cannot be captured by aggregate measures, and this is the reason why the home-country self-employment hypothesis, although intuitive, has underperformed in previous empirical tests.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Society for Sociological Science, 2019
Keywords
migration; entrepreneurship; human capital; event-history analysis; Level-of-Living Survey
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-163260 (URN)10.15195/v6.a23 (DOI)000506214200001 ()
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