Findings from Karolinska Institute Yields New Data on Health and Medicine (Differences In Labour Market Marginalisation Between Refugees, Non-refugee Immigrants and Swedish-born Youth: Role of Age At Arrival and Residency Duration): Health and Medicine

2022 MAY 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health News Daily -- Researchers detail new data in Health and Medicine. According to news reporting originating from Stockholm, Sweden, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “We investigated if the risk of long-term unemployment (LTU) and disability pension (DP) differs between young refugees and non-refuge immigrants compared to the Swedish-born. The role of age at arrival, duration of residency and morbidity in this association was also investigated.”

Financial support for this research came from European Commission.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Karolinska Institute, “All 19- to 25-year-olds residing in Sweden on 31 December 2004 (1691 refugees who were unaccompanied by a parent at arrival, 24,697 accompanied refugees, 18,762 non-refugee immigrants and 621,455 Swedish-born individuals) were followed from 2005 to 2016 regarding LTU (>180 days annually) and DP using nationwide register data. Cox regression models were used to estimate crude and multivariate-adjusted (adjusted for several socio-demographic, labour market and health-related covariates) hazard ratios (aHRs) with 95% confidence intervals. Compared to the Swedish-born, all migrant groups had around a 1.8-fold higher risk of LTU (range aHR=1.71-1.83) and around a 30% lower risk of DP (range aHR=0.66-0.76). Older age at arrival was associated with a higher risk of LTU only for non-refugee immigrants. Both older age at arrival and a shorter duration of residency were associated with a lower risk of DP for all migrant groups. Psychiatric morbidity had the strongest effect on subsequent DP, with no significant differences between migrant groups and the Swedish-born (range aHR=5.1-6.1). Young immigrants had a higher risk of LTU and a lower risk of DP than their Swedish-born peers. No differences between the different immigrant groups were found.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Age at arrival, psychiatric morbidity and duration of residency are strong determinants of being granted DP.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Differences In Labour Market Marginalisation Between Refugees, Non-refugee Immigrants and Swedish-born Youth: Role of Age At Arrival and Residency Duration. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2022. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - sjp.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Ridwanul Amin, Karolinska Institute, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Insurance Medicine, Rerzelius Vag 3, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden. Additional authors for this research include Gerdur Geirsdottir, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Emma Bjorkenstam, Lingjing Chen and Thomas E. Dorner.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948221079060. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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