Open AccessThe Regional Settlement Patterns of Immigrants to Sweden 1967-2005
Author(s) -
Daniel Rauhut,
Mats Johansson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
finnish yearbook of population research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1796-6191
pISSN - 1796-6183
DOI - 10.23979/fypr.45068
Subject(s) - immigration , settlement (finance) , demographic economics , geography , regional variation , variables , unemployment , regression analysis , multivariate statistics , demography , econometrics , economics , statistics , sociology , political science , economic growth , mathematics , archaeology , finance , law , payment
The aim of this study is to analyse the initial allocation of immigrants to Sweden 1967-2005 by age in a regional perspective. Vacancies, unemployment and labour market participation as well as geographical areas with many previous immigrants are included in the analysis as pull-factors. A multivariate cross-section OLS regression model will be used to estimate the relative initial regional distribution of immigrants in Sweden in 1967, 1975, 1990 and 2005 by age. The chosen method enables to control for a subset of explanatory variables and examine the effect of a selected independent variable when estimating the regional pull-factors to immigration. This study uses data collected from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and the National Labour Market Board (AMS). The data used is regional macro data, which does not contain information on single individuals.The overall conclusion is that previous immigrants had an impact on age groups in their initial regional settlement pattern in 1967 - 2005. Few of the other independent variables show any coefficients which are statistically separated from zero.