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The lowest earnings were among immigrants in “refugee” groups, and these were two to three times
lower compared to Swedish-born women and female immigrants from the Nordic countries and
Poland. Earnings of women from the other European countries were about 20% lower than those
of women from the Nordic countries, but about 20%–25% higher than immigrants from “the
other” countries. Earnings of Finnish-born women were lower by about 30% compared to Swedishborn women. This advocated the effect of distortion of statistics, since the Finnish population is
more pronounced in the Swedish border municipalities with Finland.
Earnings grew over time for all groups studied in this paper (Figure 5), and the raw data
demonstrated that group differences remained constant over time (Figure 6). However, these
differences tended to diminish in certain groups when controlling for a set of variables, as described
below and shown in Figure 7. Despite a growth of earnings, labor supply dynamic