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I'd be interested in seeing some statistics that support the idea that Scandanavian countries have more success in integrating immigrants that can be attributed to their social model. Norway is a bad example because of her oil wealth that distorts analysis. But here's an article that suggests that Sweden is not really doing so well in the area of discrimination against immigrants.

"Swedish studies on income-convergence patterns of various immigrant groups and natives indicate that the income-gap between immigrants tends to decrease in the first few years in Sweden but thereafter remains at high levels. For the immigrant groups from countries outside Europe, this income-gap settles at around 30 percent. Considering the small wage inequality in Sweden in general and the observed wage differentials between natives and immigrants, the huge income gaps must then reflect differences in unemployment-risk."
http://www.fief.se/publications/working_paper/pdf/WP169.pdf

I don't know whether the source of this article is credible, but it sounds as if there are problems even with Sweden's all-inclusive social model.

by asdf on Sun Nov 13th, 2005 at 10:07:20 PM EST
I wasn't writing about integration of immigrants, only about overall economic inequality.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 14th, 2005 at 01:39:44 AM EST
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