The increasing importance of place: neighbourhood differences in metropolitan Sweden, 1990–2006
In: China journal of social work, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 244-261
ISSN: 1752-5101
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In: China journal of social work, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 244-261
ISSN: 1752-5101
In: Ekonomiska studier 102
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 16044
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In: Discussion paper series 3185
This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered by population share of visible immigrants in proportion to share of native born residents. The target variable under study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing additively decomposable inequality indexes. Based on this, measures of residential economic polarisation and residential ethnic polarisation are obtained. Of major significance is that residential polarisation increased for all three regions and for both sub-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due to differences in mean income across neighbourhoods, the proportion had increased to as much as 22 percent in 2002. Ethnic residential polarisation increased as well and we report a relatively large overlap between economic and ethnic polarisation. Based on estimated regression models, we conclude that increased returns to parental education have forcefully contributed to larger economic polarisation among children in Swedish metropolitan regions. -- Segregation ; children ; Sweden ; immigrants ; income ; education
In: International journal of social welfare, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 29-41
ISSN: 1468-2397
AbstractIn Sweden, mandatory reporting in social services is regulated by the Social Services Act to protect service users and improve services. The aim of this article is to describe mandatory reports by staff and compare types of mistreatment, severity and actions across three areas of social services: elderly care, disability services, and individual and family care. All the reports written by staff and investigated by a designated official over a 1‐year period (n = 1105) in one of the largest regions in Sweden were retrieved, inductively coded and quantitatively analysed. The results showed that most of the reports related to unsafe behaviour and organisational issues. Of all the reports, 14% (n = 156) were deemed to be serious. Differences in assessing mistreatment are discussed in relation to incident reporting in health care. The need for new models of analysis for mandatory reporting in social care is highlighted.
In: Journal of public child welfare, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 414-433
ISSN: 1554-8740
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12880
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In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Band 9, Heft 1
ISSN: 2520-1786
Following publication of the original article (Gustafsson et al., 2017), the authors reported a list of errors.
In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Band 7, Heft 1
ISSN: 2520-1786
AbstractThis paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the years 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. The results show that the number of years taken to get a foothold in the Swedish labor market increases rapidly by age among immigrants from middle- and low-income countries aged 40+. Most individuals who are born in middle- or low-income countries who immigrate after age 50 never get a foothold in the Swedish labor market.
In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 1-23
In: Third world quarterly, Band 42, Heft 5, S. 1014-1032
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility; Research on Economic Inequality, S. 185-219
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 48, Heft 19, S. 4648-4669
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 14882
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