Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias; Willis, Sébastien - 2024
We study how professional networks are related to immigrant labour market integration. Matched employer-employee data … for Sweden show that networks grow with time in the host country and that their composition changes from immigrant toward … connected local industries. After 20 years in Sweden, the built-up connections raise immigrant re-employment rates by 0.7 to 1 …