Entrance, Exit and Exclusion Labour Market Flows of Foreign Born Adults in Swedish “Divided Cities” Charlotta Hedberg Department of Human Geography Stockholm University, Sweden Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Population Geographies 10-13 July 2007, Hong Kong
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Entrance, Exit and ExclusionLabour Market Flows of Foreign Born Adults
in Swedish “Divided Cities”
Charlotta Hedberg
Department of Human Geography Stockholm University, Sweden
Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Population Geographies 10-13 July 2007, Hong Kong
”Divided cities” and labour markets
• Segregation and ”neighbourhood effects”– Less affluent areas hamper socio-economic
careers
• Foreign born in the labour market
Vulnerable labour markets
Labour markets as fluid, but highly segmented spaces– Constituted by multiple flows– Embedded in the individual life
course• Study, parental leave,
unemployment• International migration
– Structures• Discrimination, social capital,
segmentation
LM
Entrance Exit
Exclusion
Aimto investigate social mobility patterns of the foreign born
population in urban areas in Sweden
Hypotheses• The foreign born population has
– a higher degree of exclusion than native born– a higher labour turnover (entrance and exit)
• The population of ”distressed” neighbourhoods have a less favourable labour mobility
Data
• PLACE – the longitudinal database– All individuals– Annual data– Geocoded– Income tax return
• Design of the study– Foreign & Swedish born– Adult cohort (25-40 year-olds)– Period of economic recovery (1993-2002)– ”Distressed” areas & surrounding city regions– Stockholm and Malmö
• 8 main categories
Classification of livelihood positions
1. Employment
2. Vulnerable positions– Unemployment– Social allowance– Other vulnerable
positions
3. Other life course events– Student– Parental leave– Age-pension– Death– Emigration– Other events