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Features · Making It · Published 8 August 2026

Even Swedish work experience matters less when you were born abroad

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Updated 15:07 · 2 min read

Five people review notes and visual materials around a table during an Open GLAM working meeting in Stockholm.
Five people review notes and visual materials around a table during an Open GLAM working meeting in Stockholm.. Image: Renvoy / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0

Swedish work experience raises wages for foreign-born workers, but IFAU found that the increase is generally larger for workers born in Sweden.

Researchers at IFAU used historical registers and longitudinal data to reconstruct workers’ complete employment histories. The wage return from Swedish labour-market

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