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Differences in labour market marginalisation among young immigrant groups and Swedish-born youth

BACKGROUND: There is a knowledge gap regarding the risk for labour market marginalisation among younger cohorts of refugees and non-refugee immigrants. We investigated if the risk of long-term unemployment (LTU) and disability pension (DP) differs between young refugees and non-refuge immigrants com...

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Autores principales: Amin, R, Geirsdottir, G, Mittendorfer-Rutz, E, Björkenstam, E, Chen, L, Dorner, T
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9593449/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac130.079
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author Amin, R
Geirsdottir, G
Mittendorfer-Rutz, E
Björkenstam, E
Chen, L
Dorner, T
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description BACKGROUND: There is a knowledge gap regarding the risk for labour market marginalisation among younger cohorts of refugees and non-refugee immigrants. We investigated if the risk of long-term unemployment (LTU) and disability pension (DP) differs between young refugees and non-refuge immigrants compared to the Swedish-born. The role of age at arrival, duration of residency and morbidity in this association was also investigated. METHODS: All 19- to 25-year-olds residing in Sweden on 31 December 2004 (1691 refugees who were unaccompanied by a parent at arrival, 24,697 accompanied refugees, 18,762 non-refugee immigrants and 621,455 Swedish-born individuals) were followed from 2005 to 2016 regarding LTU (>180 days annually) and DP using nationwide register data. Cox regression models were used to estimate crude and multivariate-adjusted (adjusted for several socio-demographic, labour market and health-related covariates) hazard ratios (aHRs) with 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Compared to the Swedish-born, all migrant groups had around a 1.8-fold higher risk of LTU (range aHR=1.71-1.83) and around a 30% lower risk of DP (range aHR=0.66-0.76). Older age at arrival was associated with a higher risk of LTU only for non-refugee immigrants. Both older age at arrival and a shorter duration of residency were associated with a lower risk of DP for all migrant groups. Psychiatric morbidity had the strongest effect on subsequent DP, with no significant differences between migrant groups and the Swedish-born (range aHR=5.1-6.1). CONCLUSIONS: Young immigrants had a higher risk of LTU and a lower risk of DP than their Swedish-born peers. No differences between the different immigrant groups were found. Age at arrival, psychiatric morbidity and duration of residency are strong determinants of being granted DP. KEY MESSAGES: Young refugees and non-refugee immigrants both had a similar higher risk of long-term unemployment and a similar lower risk of disability pension than their Swedish-born peers. Age at arrival, psychiatric morbidity and duration of residency are strong determinants of being granted disability pension for young refugees and non-refugee immigrants in Sweden.
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spelling pubmed-95934492022-11-22 Differences in labour market marginalisation among young immigrant groups and Swedish-born youth Amin, R Geirsdottir, G Mittendorfer-Rutz, E Björkenstam, E Chen, L Dorner, T Eur J Public Health Poster Walks BACKGROUND: There is a knowledge gap regarding the risk for labour market marginalisation among younger cohorts of refugees and non-refugee immigrants. We investigated if the risk of long-term unemployment (LTU) and disability pension (DP) differs between young refugees and non-refuge immigrants compared to the Swedish-born. The role of age at arrival, duration of residency and morbidity in this association was also investigated. METHODS: All 19- to 25-year-olds residing in Sweden on 31 December 2004 (1691 refugees who were unaccompanied by a parent at arrival, 24,697 accompanied refugees, 18,762 non-refugee immigrants and 621,455 Swedish-born individuals) were followed from 2005 to 2016 regarding LTU (>180 days annually) and DP using nationwide register data. Cox regression models were used to estimate crude and multivariate-adjusted (adjusted for several socio-demographic, labour market and health-related covariates) hazard ratios (aHRs) with 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Compared to the Swedish-born, all migrant groups had around a 1.8-fold higher risk of LTU (range aHR=1.71-1.83) and around a 30% lower risk of DP (range aHR=0.66-0.76). Older age at arrival was associated with a higher risk of LTU only for non-refugee immigrants. Both older age at arrival and a shorter duration of residency were associated with a lower risk of DP for all migrant groups. Psychiatric morbidity had the strongest effect on subsequent DP, with no significant differences between migrant groups and the Swedish-born (range aHR=5.1-6.1). CONCLUSIONS: Young immigrants had a higher risk of LTU and a lower risk of DP than their Swedish-born peers. No differences between the different immigrant groups were found. Age at arrival, psychiatric morbidity and duration of residency are strong determinants of being granted DP. KEY MESSAGES: Young refugees and non-refugee immigrants both had a similar higher risk of long-term unemployment and a similar lower risk of disability pension than their Swedish-born peers. Age at arrival, psychiatric morbidity and duration of residency are strong determinants of being granted disability pension for young refugees and non-refugee immigrants in Sweden. Oxford University Press 2022-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9593449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac130.079 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Differences in labour market marginalisation among young immigrant groups and Swedish-born youth
title_sort differences in labour market marginalisation among young immigrant groups and swedish-born youth
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9593449/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac130.079
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