Poverty and its persistence: a comparison of natives and immigrants in Sweden

Hansen, Jørgen; Wahlberg, Roger

doi:10.1007/s11150-009-9054-9

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“…Previous studies of poverty among adult immigrants in Scandinavia (Blume, Gustafsson, Pedersen, & Verner, 2007;Galloway & Aaberge, 2005;Hansen & Wahlberg, 2009) suggest that a longer period of residence in the host country is associated with lower poverty rates; the main forces behind this relationship are assumed to be the process of adjustment and integration in terms of language and skills in the labor market. Although one would thus assume that a similar pattern exists for immigrant children in relation to their parents' duration of residence, this need not be the case.…”

Section: Poverty Rates For Recent Arrival Cohorts Of Immigrant Childrenmentioning

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Immigrant Child Poverty – The Achilles Heel of the Scandinavian Welfare State

Galloway¹,

Gustafsson²,

Pedersen³

et al. 2015

Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility

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Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden 1993À2001 is studied using large sets of panel data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years studied the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle-and low-income countries have poverty risks that vary from 38 up to as much as 58 percent. At the end of the observation period, one third of the poor children in Norway and as high as about a half in Denmark and in Sweden are of immigrant origin. The strong overrepresentation of immigrant children from low-and middleincome countries when measured in yearly data is also found when applying a longer accounting period for poverty measurement. We find that child poverty rates are generally high shortly after arrival to the new country and typically decrease with years since immigration. Multivariate analysis shows that parents years since immigration and education affect risks of the number of periods in persistent poverty.While a native child is very unlikely to spend nine years in poverty, the corresponding risk for a child to a newly arrived immigrant was found to be far from negligible. Much of the pattern is similar across the three countries but there are also some notable differences.

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Section: Poverty Rates For Recent Arrival Cohorts Of Immigrant Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrant Child Poverty – The Achilles Heel of the Scandinavian Welfare State

Galloway¹,

Gustafsson²,

Pedersen³

et al. 2015

Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility

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“…Various explanations have been attempted, to better account for the link between migration and poverty. They usually refer to migrants' legal status, to their educational attainments and poor host language proficiency, to relatively lower job skills, to age and family status and the length of stay (Hansen and Wahlberg 2009;Sullivan and Ziegert 2008). Indeed, in Arcagni et al (2019), it is underlined how capturing migrants' poverty is a difficult task from many points of view.…”

Section: Background Research On Migrants' Povertymentioning

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Targeting Policies for Multidimensional Poverty and Social Fragility Relief Among Migrants in Italy, Using F-FOD Analysis

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In this paper, we apply the novel Fuzzy First-Order Dominance (F-FOD) methodology to rank migrant subpopulations in Lombardy (Italy), in terms of multidimensional poverty and social fragility, for the year 2014, with the purpose to possibly provide useful support to policy-makers, in targeting relief interventions from poverty and discomfort. The F-FOD methodology allows for the direct comparison of different distributions of poverty and fragility, assessed by means of suitable ordinal multi-indicator systems, so extending to this more complex setting, the usual univariate first-order dominance criterion. It also provides complimentary “incomparability” scores, to assess to what extent the final rankings are reliable or instead forcing. It turns out that the levels of poverty and fragility of migrant subpopulations are quite different and, in particular, that the time since migrations has a key impact, on the identification of most critical cases, which typically involve recently migrated people. Evidence also emerges that the temporal poverty/fragility trajectories of migrants, distinguished by country of origin, follow different paths, suggesting how policy interventions must be properly, and differently, tuned to be effective.

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“…Furthermore, it must be noted that the availability of data exerts a strong influence on the choice of methodology. Most research in Europe is based on the EU-SILC database (Muñoz de Bustillo and Anton 2011; Bárcena-Martín and Pérez-Moreno 2017) or administrative registers (Blume et al 2007;Hansen and Wahlberg 2009;Obućina 2014).…”

Section: Measuring Immigrants' Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2. Studies that investigate convergent/divergent trends in poverty over time between migrants and natives: Hansen and Wahlberg (2009) and Obućina (2014), for Sweden; Kim and Tebaldi (2011) and Pastor (2014), for the USA. Similarly, studies that analyze the trend of migrant poverty over time: Galloway and Aaberge (2003), for Norway; Lelkes and Zólyomi (2011), for EU countries; Picot et al (2008), for Canada.…”

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confidence: 99%