Demography
Volume 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 645-671

Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants (Article) (Open Access)

Strömgren M. , Tammaru T.* , Danzer A.M. , van Ham M. , Marcińczak S. , Stjernström O. , Lindgren U.
  • a Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
  • b Centre for Migration and Urban Studies, Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
  • c Department of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, Germany
  • d Delft University of Technology, OTB - Research for the Built Environment, P.O. Box 5030, 2600 GA Delft, Netherlands, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
  • e Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
  • f Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
  • g Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden

Abstract

Research on segregation of immigrant groups is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas toward other important places, such as the workplace, where immigrants can meet and interact with members of the native population. This article examines workplace segregation of immigrants. We use longitudinal, georeferenced Swedish population register data, which enables us to observe all immigrants in Sweden for the period 1990-2005 on an annual basis. We compare estimates from ordinary least squares with fixed-effects regressions to quantify the extent of immigrants' self-selection into specific workplaces, neighborhoods, and partnerships, which may bias more naïve ordinary least squares results. In line with previous research, we find lower levels of workplace segregation than residential segregation. The main finding is that low levels of residential segregation reduce workplace segregation, even after we take into account intermarriage with natives as well as unobserved characteristics of immigrants' such as willingness and ability to integrate into the host society. Being intermarried with a native reduces workplace segregation for immigrant men but not for immigrant women. © 2014 Population Association of America.

Author Keywords

Workplace segregation Sweden Residential segregation Intermarriage Longitudinal analysis

Index Keywords

longitudinal study Registries register human Longitudinal Studies sex difference middle aged Cross-Sectional Studies Young Adult Sweden cross-sectional study migrant racism workplace Adolescent Humans male Emigrants and Immigrants female Article adult Sex Factors
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84897487285&doi=10.1007%2fs13524-013-0271-8&partnerID=40&md5=17f7cbcb58327d947d30df867e0a96ca
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0271-8
ISSN: 00703370
Cited by: 18
Original Language: English