Open this publication in new window or tab >>2016 (English)In: International labour review (Print), ISSN 0020-7780, E-ISSN 1564-913X, Vol. 155, no 2, p. 315-337Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Based on a large-scale survey of Swedish firms, the authors identify significant heterogeneity in their attitudes towards refugee hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination, though experience of employing refugees reduces negative attitudes. Firms' reasons for discontinuing their employment of refugees are not related to discrimination by staff or customers, but rather to refugees' suboptimal job performance. While the majority of firms do not regard the collectively agreed minimum wages as an important obstacle to the hiring of refugees, firms with a large share of refugees on the payroll report that reducing those wage rates would enhance employment substantially.
Keywords
management attitude, migrant worker, refugee, work performance, wage determination, survey, Sweden
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-134380 (URN)10.1111/ilr.12026 (DOI)000384539100008 ()
2016-10-062016-10-062022-02-28Bibliographically approved