A Day Late and a Krona Short - Age at Immigration and Labour Market Integration

Abstract: The paper examines how age at immigration affects the labour market integration of refugees in Sweden. Four different outcomes are studied: educational attainment, employment, wage, and welfare benefits. The individual data from the register-based longitudinal database GEOSweden developed by Statistics Sweden is used in this study. In order to ensure that the studied relationship is causal, the results are compared within siblings by family fixed effects. The results show that the increase in the age at immigration has negative impact on the educational attainment, employment, wage and increases the received welfare benefits of an individual.