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Family Work Policies Affecting Immigrants Family Migration

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Third, policies that encourage employment, and reduce poverty can affect immigrants’ family integration. If family-work policy operates equally on migrants and natives, the high participation rate of women in the Swedish as compared to the American labor market (79.3% and 67.1% in 2014, respectively OECD.stat ) could lead to higher household income among dual-earner immigrant families in Sweden. For instance, it has been found that immigrant women in Sweden work at higher absolute rates compared to immigrant women in Germany and Britain (Kesler, 2006). On the other hand, if such policy does not operate equally on immigrant and native women, it might increase the inequality between native and migrant families. For example, in Sweden the goal
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