Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

individual well-being. We investigate the labour market performance of internal migrants in Sweden around the turn of the last … considering women. To assess how migrants fared compared to locals, we use detailed matched firm-individual data covering three … manufacturing industries which varied in terms of production, organisation, and composition of the workforce. We find that migrants …

analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …