Working Together for Integration Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Iceland

Working Together for Integration Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Iceland

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2024-09-04

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9264639705

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Relative to its population, Iceland experienced the largest inflow of immigrants over the past decade of any OECD country. Four out of five immigrants in Iceland have come from EU and EFTA countries, although there has been a recent increase in humanitarian arrivals. Employment rates are the highest in the OECD, for both men and women, reflecting the recent and labour market oriented nature of most immigration to Iceland. However, immigrants’ skills are often not well used, as witnessed by the high rate of formal overqualification. What is more, immigrants’ language skills are poor in international comparison and there is evidence of growing settlement of immigrants. Against this backdrop, Iceland is at a turning point in its integration framework, and seeks to develop a comprehensive integration policy for the first time. This review, the fifth in the series Working Together for Integration, provides an in depth analysis of the Icelandic integration system, highlighting its strengths, weaknesses, and potential areas for improvement. Earlier reviews in this series looked at integration in Sweden (2016), Finland (2018), Norway (2022) and Flanders (2023).


Working Together for Integration Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Flanders

Working Together for Integration Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Flanders

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-06-28

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9264772103

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Flanders experienced large inflows of immigrants over the past decade, coming from an increasingly diverse range of countries, with growth rates outpacing the Netherlands, France and Germany, as well as Belgium as a whole. While integration outcomes have improved in recent years, some of the core indicators remain unfavourable in international comparison, especially for non-EU immigrant women, refugees, and youth with migrant parents.


Working Together for Integration Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Norway

Working Together for Integration Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Norway

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9264375384

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Norway’s foreign-born population has tripled since 2000, and the share of migrants among the population has seen one of the largest increases across the OECD, mostly driven by labour migration from EU countries. Most migrants from non-EU countries, in contrast, are refugees and their family members. High qualification levels and labour market participation of the native-born raise the question of an adequate benchmark for integration outcomes, especially for the low-educated refugees and their families.


Working Together for Integration Working Together: Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Finland

Working Together for Integration Working Together: Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Finland

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9264305254

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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 ...


OECD Regional Development Studies Working Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Gothenburg

OECD Regional Development Studies Working Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Gothenburg

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2018-04-18

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9264299602

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This report presents the way Gothenburg municipality and its state and non-state partners are addressing migrant integration issues and opportunities. It compiles data and qualitative evidence on how local integration efforts are designed and implemented within a multi-level governance framework.


Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets

Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets

Author: Lars Calmfors

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2019-05-29

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9289362006

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Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden face similar problems of integrating large groups of immigrants, especially low-educated ones from outside the EU, into their labour markets. In this volume, researchers from across the Nordic Region analyse how labour market integration of immigrants can be promoted. Education policy, active labour market policy, social benefit policy and wage policy are analysed. A key conclusion is that no single policy is likely to suffice. Instead, various policies have to be combined. The exact policy mix must depend on evaluations of the trade-offs with other policy objectives.


Ready to Help? Improving Resilience of Integration Systems for Refugees and other Vulnerable Migrants

Ready to Help? Improving Resilience of Integration Systems for Refugees and other Vulnerable Migrants

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9264311319

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This report looks at ways to improve the resilience of systems to deal with the unexpected arrival of large inflows of refugees and other vulnerable migrants. It begins with an overview of the recent flows of migrants seeking protection, discusses the expected economic impact of these flows...


Making Integration Work Family Migrants

Making Integration Work Family Migrants

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9264279520

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The OECD series Making Integration Work summarises, in a non-technical way, the main issues surrounding the integration of immigrants and their children into their host countries. Each book presents concrete policy lessons for its theme, along with supporting examples of good practices.


OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Unlocking the Potential of Migrants Cross-country Analysis

OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Unlocking the Potential of Migrants Cross-country Analysis

Author: Jeon Shinyoung

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9264981306

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Among the millions of asylum seekers who recently arrived in OECD countries, the majority are young people who may be able to take advantage of vocational education and training (VET) opportunities to help them enter skilled employment. This report provides advice to governments and other stakeholders who are seeking to use VET to promote integration, in particular for young humanitarian migrants. While the study draws particularly on policy and practice observed in Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, it also highlights other international practices.