The immigrant effect from employer and employee perspectives in a Swedish context

Lundberg, Heléne; Rehnfors, Anneli

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2019.096966

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2019

DOI: 10.1504/ijesb.2019.096966

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The immigrant effect from employer and employee perspectives in a Swedish context

Heléne Lundberg

Anneli Rehnfors

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“…The labor market matching process challenges refer to the information asymmetries that pose obstacles to the matching of immigrant jobseekers with employers. Mismatching could be more prevalent among immigrants for many reasons such as heterogeneity between jobseekers and jobs, sociocultural distance (Auer et al 2018), lacking information about employers' requirements, language proficiency as well as industry's demand for highly educated and skilled employees (Dean 2018;Lundberg & Rehnfors 2019).…”

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Harder Than You Think – Immigrant Labor Market Integration in Agricultural Sector

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The recent forced migration to Europe has created more challenges for the labor market integration. However, the Swedish government encourages unemployed immigrants to seek employment in the farming, gardening, and forestry industries. Thus, this article focuses on the matching process in the Swedish agricultural sector by using an exploratory, qualitative, in-depth interview with representatives involved in the matching process. Immigrants experience challenges of Swedish language proficiency, lacking a driving license and adapting to new cultures in the workplace, while employers attribute challenges of effective hiring process and the absence of evidence of immigrants’ work experience. Furthermore, the employment service offices struggle with scant knowledge of agricultural employment that needs to be combined with limited contact with employers and the bureaucratic delays caused by requirements of qualifications validation. The paper concludes with a Labour Market Matching Model, which focuses on critical aspects before, during, and after the matching process.

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