This paper documents Finland's policy response to the increase in asylum applications in 2015 and the labor market performance of earlier immigrants living in Finland. Immigrants born in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia had substantially lower employment rates, earned less and received more social...

This study examines whether the different selection processes of asylum seekers, resettled refugees and their family members produce discrepancies to the employment trajectories in the host society. The labour market integration of the three refugee groups are analysed by using extensive...

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...

This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a...