The study’s sources of data and analysis -- Holistic and interdisciplinary initiatives -- Initiatives based on an empowerment approach -- How the study was conducted -- References -- Introduction -- Employment efforts for refugees in Reykjavik, Iceland -- Vocational assessment initiatives --...

Research design: data and methods -- Descriptive analysis of employment and enrolment in education -- Descriptive analysis of participants in integration programmes -- The Oaxaca decomposition -- Participants in the Scandinavian integration programmes -- Hypotheses: discussion -- Explaining...

Labour Market Policies: What Works for Newly Arrived Immigrants? -- Education Efforts for Immigrants -- Social Insurance Design and the Economic Integration of Immigrants -- Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants -- Education Policy for Adolescent Immigrants -- How Should the...

Technical Considerations -- Preface -- Major immigration flows to the Nordic Region -- Asylum Seekers -- Labour Market Integration -- Representation of people with a Foreign background in State Funded Culture -- Foreign-Born persons in the Nordic Region -- References -- Health and wellbeing in...

Nordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did not mobilize their armies until it was too late. This...