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Working Together for Integration Working Together: Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and Their Children in Finland
Contributor(s): Oecd (Author)
ISBN: 9264305246     ISBN-13: 9789264305243
Publisher: OECD
OUR PRICE:   $45.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
LCCN: 2019466922
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.62 lbs) 196 pages
 
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While Finland's foreign-born population remains small by international standards, growth has been amongst the fastest in the OECD. Finland's foreign-born population have lower employment rates than native-born Finns, and women, in particular, are struggling to integrate and face incentives to stay in the home. Indeed, the employment gap among those arriving from outside the European Union is among the largest in the OECD. This risks long-term implications for the integration of their children, many of whom are struggling to thrive in the Finnish school system. Large inflows of asylum seekers in 2015 put integration squarely on the agenda, and Finland developed a number of innovative integration policies in response. Yet, numbers have since fallen dramatically, raising questions of how to respond to the needs of a large cohort without scaling up the integration system on a permanent basis. This review, the second in a series on the skills and labour market integration of immigrants and their children, provides an assessment of these and other challenges. It includes a holistic assessment of Finland's integration services - such as the new modular integration training, and the Social Impact Bond - as well as challenges related to settlement, early labour market contact and workplace segregation. An earlier review in the series looked at integration policies in Sweden (2016).