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Labor and marriage market incorporation of individuals with an origin from Turkey in Sweden: A comparative perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

Aycan Çelikaksoy
Aycan Çelikaksoy*
Affiliation:
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)and Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), Stockholm University
*
aycan.celikaksoy@sofi.su.se.
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Abstract

This paper investigates the labor and marriage market incorporation of individuals originating from Turkey in comparison to other migrant groups in Sweden. Using high-quality register data from Statistics Sweden, the progress of and challenges facing this group are analyzed in comparison to their European and Middle Eastern counterparts, both over time and over generations. The descriptive results point to the economic progress of individuals from Turkey over time and over generations, especially in the case of native-born females. The results show that native-born individuals with an origin from Turkey are more likely to be employed as compared to their counterparts from the New 10 EU member states, Bulgaria and Romania, and the Middle East. However, those originating from Turkey are less likely to intermarry as compared to other groups. Further analyses indicate that individual characteristics are more important for native-born individuals, as compared to immigrants, in explaining the observed gaps in the labor market as well as the marriage market. However, the role of individual characteristics in explaining differences across groups varies by gender as well as by generation.

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EU accession of Turkeymigration from Turkeychildren of migrants from Turkeyemploymentintermarriageimmigrants in Swedensecond generation
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 51 , Fall 2014 , pp. 97 - 121
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey and Cambridge University Press 2014

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