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Stuck at the bottom? gender and immigrants’ entrapment in low-skilled work
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7680-334x
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2409-5887
2025 (English)In: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, E-ISSN 2245-0157, Vol. 15, no 3Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Immigrant women are widely portrayed as facing serious labor market disadvantage, yet gender differences in immigrants’ occupational mobility have been little explored. The article studied gender gaps in immigrants’ occupational entrapment, defined as entering and remaining in lowskilled/low-prestige work rather than moving on to more skilled/prestigious work. The analyses were based on longitudinal register data and followed five immigrant cohorts arriving in Sweden in the early 2000s over a 12-year period. The results show that immigrant women were more likely than men to start out in a low-skilled/low-prestige job and less likely to experience occupational mobility. However, tertiary education strongly mitigated these gender gaps. At the same time, the differences between high- and loweducated individuals widened more among women than among men. Family-related factors and country-specific human capital did not explain these patterns, but the findings indicate that occupational gender segregation can be crucial to immigrants' mobility prospects.

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Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library , 2025. Vol. 15, no 3
Keywords [en]
Learning & Competencies, Employment, Wages, Unemployment & Rehabilitation, Gender, Ethnicity, Age and Diversity
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Gender Studies
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-231335DOI: 10.18291/njwls.150366Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105014975662OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-231335DiVA, id: diva2:1909735
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2017-00226Available from: 2024-10-31 Created: 2024-10-31 Last updated: 2025-09-24Bibliographically approved

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