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Swedish Youth with immigrant background (skin colour) find it hardest to get an income


Thursday, 28 June 2012
Despite the rapid improvement of the Swedish economy after the crisis year of 2009 the proportion of Swedish youths that have been placed on the margin of the Swedish economy has grown by 2010 – 2011. A new survey by Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs will present today.

More than 120 000 young people between 16 and 25 are neither working nor studying in 2010. This represents 9.5 percent of all youth in the age range in Sweden as the Swedish polarisation continues to grow among the “we” – meaning the “real Swedes” and the “them” – meaning the youths of immigrants background.

It is actually a marginal decrease compared to 2009, when the Swedish economy came to a halt after the financial crisis and were the gross domestic product (GDP) fell by over 5 percent. Although the economy improved rapidly in 2010 with a GDP increase of 6 percent, it led to no greater improvement for the young people.

When activities on the Swedish labour market started to improve with an increase of 1.7 percent between November 2009 and November 2010 the situation improved only by half a percentage point for young people, according to the Swedish Employment Service.

“Difficulties for young people, as opposed to older job seekers, persist even in a boom,” says Oscar Smith, an investigator at the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs.

He considers that in is vital to work widely with young people even in prosperous times.
Two-thirds of the youths in the study lacked full income. Almost a third was born abroad, according to a special part of the report. Toughest of all were foreign-born young women when compared to their share of the population. The best starting position was Swedish-born women.

The most difficult situation, if one compares the proportion of the entire youth population, are the young people who had lived in southern Sweden and central Norrland.

The Swedish Employment Service will in the autumn come up with an in-depth study of the young people who either study or work.
“We know too little about who they are, says Tord Strannefors, forecast manager at the Swedish Employment Service.

The Government has recently appointed an investigator to suggest how deal with young people who neither work nor study and how to develop a program for them and how local authorities perform their monitoring responsibilities for young people. That finding will be delivered in a final report in August 2013.

This is not the first time Swedish job market has shown polarisation among the “them” and “us”. Some politicians such as within the Social Democrats have taken it seriously but persistently, as Sweden present itself as a country of immigrants, it depends on where you have immigrated from and how you look. In most cases, immigrants to Sweden from the wrong countries and wrong races show that they have absolutely no Swedish dream.

Compared to other developed countries such as the USA, UK, to a greater extent, where the real diverse population is seen activity participating in economic activities – education, creativity, new business start-ups, invention among others,  in Sweden such chances are not open for all.
By Scancomark.se Team






















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