INCREASING OUR KNOWLEDGE ON MIGRATION AND SOCIETY
Uppsala Immigration Lab performs research on economic and social issues shaping our future. Collaborations across fields and interactions with the surrounding society provide opportunities for contributions to science and policy development.
Ongoing immigration research
The social mobility of refugee children
What happened to the refugee children that came to Sweden from former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s? We follow refugee children and children of refugees through the education system and into the labor market and social insurance systems.
Heterogeneous responses to family formation
What role does family formation play in accounting for the differences in labor market outcomes between natives and immigrants? We look at the size and persistence of the motherhood penalty among immigrants and how it relates to source country characteristics, age at migration, and the length of residence in Sweden.
Aging migrants, labor market transitions and the welfare state
How is the immigrant exit from the labor market different from that of the native population and why? This research program increases the knowledge about the working life of older migrants and how this interacts with the welfare state and other factors.
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Social networks and immigrant integration
What is the effect of informal meetings between established and new Swedes on the integration of immigrants in terms of self-perceived inclusion, labor market outcomes, housing, economy, health and attitudes? The purpose of this project is to provide causal evidence on the effects of social networks on immigrant integration in collaboration with the non-profit organization Nya Kompisbyrån.
The effect of obtaining a driver’s license on labour market outcomes
What is the effect of obtaining a driver’s license on labour market outcomes, such as income and employment? This research project examines whether a driver's license is something that opens up a larger labor market for individuals and whether it promotes integration.
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Evaluation of an ambitious integration programme for newly arrived refugees
What effect does language teaching, in-depth community introduction and job training / practice have on low-skilled newly arrived immigrants who are looking for a job or education? The project evaluates an effort in Gothenburg where low-skilled new arrivals within the Employment Agency's establishment program participate in this kind of efforts and are then matched to training or employers who need to recruit staff.
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Does asylum waiting time affect labor market integration and health?
Does asylum case processing time affect labor market integration and health? This research project investigates these questions and if so what effects longer waiting times have.
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Aptitude assessment for labor market integration
How do our psychological traits and abilities affect individual labor market prospects? This project combines labor market economics perspectives with modern psychological methods to enhance the ways of measuring the importance of different factors and their relation to the potential for integration and adaptation.
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The role of firms in explaining immigrant and native labour market outcomes
What role do firm-specific salary premiums play in explaining wage- and income differences between immigrants and natives? This research project studies the role of firms in explaining wage differences between immigrants and natives. In a broader perspective, the project examines how structural change and labour market institutions affect immigration, integration and labour market outcomes of immigrants and natives.
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The performance gap between native and foreign-born pupils
What are the explanations behind the performance gap between domestic and foreign-born pupils? This research examines why foreign-born pupils perform significantly worse in school compared to pupils born in Sweden. The research is trying to answer the question of why the so-called performance gap has widened in recent years, and what can be done to counteract this development.
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Voluntary return of refugees: policies and incentives
Do the "Voluntary return programs" increase the proportion of refugees who return to their home countries voluntarily and how quickly do individuals return? The number of refugees increased sharply in the EU in 2015 and since then many applications have been rejected. This research project examines the effect of the programs aimed at increasing the proportion of people who return voluntarily.
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Workplace contact and support for anti-immigration parties
Does the probability of voting for an anti-immigration party increase if you have immigrants in your workplace? The results of this study indicate a negative relationship between an increased proportion of non-Europeans in the workplace and support for the Sweden Democrats and support the contact hypothesis; that increased interaction with minorities (foreign-born) reduces prejudice or other negative attitudes toward minorities among domestic-born voters, leading to lower support for anti-immigration parties.
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Immigrants returns to host country labor market experience
How important is Swedish work experience for foreign-born individuals and how has it developed over five decades? This project aims at gaining new insights on long-term developments in the labor market, patterns affecting the current situation and factors for improving the future labor market outcomes of marginalized groups.
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Residential Segregation and Long-Run Outcomes
What are the effects of childhood exposure to residential segregation on long-run criminal behavior? We examine this by studying refugee children assigned to their initial neighborhood under the “Whole of Sweden Strategy”.
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