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Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants Revisited

Book Chapter
Reference
Skedinger, Per (2021). “Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants Revisited”. In Nora Sánchez Gassen and Oskar Penje (Eds.), Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (59–68). Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.

Author
Per Skedinger

Editors
Nora Sánchez Gassen, Oskar Penje

This chapter reflects on the role of wage policies in facilitating the labour market integration of immigrants. The overall analysis in this chapter suggests that minimum wage cuts, combined with other active labour market policies, should be considered to reduce high unemployment rates among immigrants especially in the Swedish context.

Per Skedinger

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