Employer attitudes towards refugee immigrants: Findings from a Swedish survey

Based on a large‐scale survey of Swedish firms, the authors identify significant heterogeneity in their attitudes towards refugee hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination, though experience of employing refugees reduces negative attitudes. Firms’ reasons for discontinuing their emplo...

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Published in:International labour review 2016-06, Vol.155 (2), p.315-337
Main Authors: LUNDBORG, Per, SKEDINGER, Per
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Companies
Customers
Discrimination
Economy
Ekonomi
Employers
Employment
Employment discrimination
Heterogeneity
Hiring
Immigrants
Job performance
management attitude
migrant worker
Minimum wage
Polls & surveys
refugee
Refugees
survey
Sweden
Wage determination
Wage rates
work performance
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Summary:Based on a large‐scale survey of Swedish firms, the authors identify significant heterogeneity in their attitudes towards refugee hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination, though experience of employing refugees reduces negative attitudes. Firms’ reasons for discontinuing their employment of refugees are not related to discrimination by staff or customers, but rather to refugees’ suboptimal job performance. While the majority of firms do not regard the collectively agreed minimum wages as an important obstacle to the hiring of refugees, firms with a large share of refugees on the payroll report that reducing those wage rates would enhance employment substantially.
ISSN:0020-7780
1564-913X
1564-913X
DOI:10.1111/ilr.12026