Utrikes födda kvinnor från Finland, Polen, Thailand och Irak på den svenska arbetsmarknaden

This paper analyses the determinants of (Finnish, Polish, Thai and Iraqi) foreign-born women labour market employment rate in the Swedish labour market from 2005-2015. This study uses Human Capital Theory, the theory of Social Network and explanatory factors such as time of residence, culture and the reason for immigration. Further, this study provides a description of the researched groups and a presentation of previous research in the field. Statistics have been applied to account for the differences between the researched groups. The results high- light and explains the main differences between the researched groups in comparison with each other and native-born women. The study shows that foreign-born women have an overall lower labour market participation rate compared to native-born women. The result shows that Finnish women have the highest labour market participation rate among the researched foreign-born women groups in Sweden followed up by the Polish, Thai and Iraqi women. Furthermore, the results have shown that foreign-born women are heterogeneous group of different levels of employment which have been influenced by different factors, such as culture and education, depending on the country of origin