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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden
Boston College, USA;DIW Berlin, Germany;CESIS, Sweden.
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Forestry and Wood Technology. DIW Berlin, Germany.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5776-9396
Maastricht University, Netherlands;CEPR, EU.
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This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 and onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum are compared to a matched sample of native-born workers. Employing recentered influence function (RIF) quantile regressions for the period 2011–2015 to wage earnings, the occupational task-based Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach shows that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have higher wages than comparable native-born female peers up to the 8th decile of the wage distribution. Refugee immigrant females perform better than native females across all occupational tasks studied, including non-routine cognitive tasks. A remarkable similarity exists in the relative wage distributions among various refugee groups, suggesting that cultural differences and the length of time spent in the host country do not significantly affect their labor market performance.

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Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik, Linnéuniversitetet , 2024. , p. 26
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Working papers in economics and statistics ; 2024:3
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Economics
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Economy, Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-127666DOI: 10.15626/ns.wp.2024.03ISBN: 9789180821322 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-127666DiVA, id: diva2:1836644
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Available from: 2024-02-09 Created: 2024-02-09 Last updated: 2024-10-22Bibliographically approved

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