title: Integration of immigrants: the role of language proficiency and experience.
abstract: In this article, the authors evaluate a Swedish pilot scheme that targeted immigrants with weak Swedish-language skills registered as unemployed at public employment offices. By sandwiching work-oriented language teaching and practical workplace training, the project aimed at enhancing the employability of project participants but also at alerting them to and preparing them for available training and further education opportunities. For the evaluation, a comparison group of nonparticipants was selected using a propensity score methodology. The results show that participation in the pilot scheme project resulted in much speedier transfers from open unemployment to employment, training, and education.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Labour Market Policy Research, School of Management and Economics, Växjö University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delander
authors.forename: Mats
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hammarstedt
authors.forename: Jonas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Månsson
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nyberg
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D003142:Communication; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013548:Sweden; D017132:Workplace