SWIP - Swedish income panel 1983
type: Dataset
description: The Swedish income panel was originally set up in the beginning of the 90s to make studies of how immigrants assimilate in the Swedish labour market possible. It consists of large samples of foreign-born and Swedish-born persons. Income information from registers is added for nearly 40 years. In addition income information relating to spouses is also available as well as for a subset of mothers and fathers. This makes it possible to construct measures of household income based on a relatively narrow definition. However, starting in 1998 there is also more information making it possible to include children over 18 and their incomes in the family. By matching with some different additional registers information has been added for people who have been unemployed or involved in labour market programmes during the 90s, on causes of deaths for people who have deceased since 1978 and on recent arrived immigrants from various origins. It has turned out that the data-base is quite useful for analysing research-questions other than originally motivating construction of the panel. The panel has been used for cross country comparisons of immigrants in the labour market and to analyse income mobility for different breakdowns of the population, and analyses the development in cohort income. There have been analyses of social assistance receipt among immigrants as well as studies of intergeneration mobility of income, the labour market situation of young immigrants and the second generation of immigrants. On-going work includes evaluation of labour market training programmes and studies of early retirement among immigrants. Planned work includes studies of the economic transition from child to adulthood during the 80s and 90s as well as studies of how frequent immigrant children are subject to measures under the Social Service Act and the Care of Youth Persons Act. The potentials of the Swedish Income Panel can be understood if one compares it with better known income-panels in ot…
citation: Gustafsson, B., & Österberg, T. (2001) Immigrants and the Public Sector Budget - Accounting Exercises for Sweden. Journal of Population Economics, vol 14 pp 689-708.
citation: Andrén, T. (2002) Essays on Training, Welfare and Labor Supply. Ph D Thesis Economics, University of Göteborg.
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  name: Gustafsson, B. (2002) Sweden's Experience of International Migration - Issues and Studies. In Ralph R., & Stein, P. (eds.) Migration Policy and the Economy: International Experiences. Munich: Hanns-Seidel-Foundation.
citation: Franzén, E. (2001) Socialbidrag bland invandrare: erfarenheter från Sverige. Sociologisk Forskning, No 3-4:9-39.
citation: Franzén, E. (2003) I välfärdsstatens väntrum - studier av invandrares socialbidragstagande. Göteborg : Department of Social Work, Univ. ISBN: 9186796372.
citation: Franzén, E. (2004) Invandrare och socialbidragsmottagare - ett liv i ofärd. I Ekberg, J. (red) Egenförsörjning eller bidragsförsörjning (SOU 2004:21), sid. 103-131. Stockholm: Fritzes.
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  name: Andrén T., & Gustafsson, B. (2004) Patterns of Social Assistance Receipt - Experiences from Sweden during a Period of Rapidly Deteriorating Labour Market Conditions. International Journal of Social Welfare, 13, 55-68.
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  name: Blume, Kraen, Gustafsson, Björn, Pedersen, J Peder & Verner, Mette (2005) A Tale of Two Countries: Poverty among immigrants to Denmark and Sweden since 1984. In Borjas, G., & Crisp, J. (eds.) Poverty, International Migration and Asylum. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University - World Institute for Development Economics Research.
citation: Österberg, T., & Gustafsson, B. (2006) Disability Pension among in Sweden 1981 to 1999. Social Science and Medicine, 63, 805-816.
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  name: Gustafsson, B., Hammarstedt, M., & Zheng, J. (2004) Invandrares arbetsmarknadssituation - översikt och nya siffror. I Ekberg, J (ed.) Egenförsörjning eller bidragsförsörjning, Invandrarna, arbetsmarknaden och välfärdsstaten. Stockholm: S O U 2004:21.
citation: Andrén, T., & Gustafsson, B. (2005) Nya Resultat om inkomsteffekter av arbetsmarknadsutbildning under 1980- och 90-talen. Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv, 11, (2) 79-92.
citation: Gustafsson, B., & Pedersen, P.J. (2005) Nederst vid borden i Danmark och Sverige - Relativ fattigdom bland invandrare. Ekonomisk Debatt, 22 (7) 5-16.
citation: Gustafsson, B., & Österberg, T. (2004) Ursprung och förtidspension. I Ekberg J. (red) Egenförsörjning eller bidragsförsörjning. SOU 2004:21. Stockholm: Fritzes.
citation: Andrén T., & Gustafsson, B. (2004) Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's. International Journal of Manpower, 25, 688-713.
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  name: Corak, M., Gustafsson, B., & Österberg, T. (2004) Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden. In Corak, M. (ed.) Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press.
citation: Franzén, E. (2004) I väntan på välfärd. Invandrare & Minoriteter, no. 1:2004.
citation: Gustafsson, B., & Zheng, J. (2006) Earnings of Immigrants in Sweden 1978-1999. International Migration, 44 (22) 79-117.
citation: Österberg, T. (2002) Klassresan i det nya landet - Om social och ekonomisk mobilitet bland invandrare. I Fattigdom i välfärdsstaten. FAS.
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creator: Björn Gustafsson
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  affiliation: University of Gothenburg
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  given name: Björn
date modified: 2025-08-19
date published: 2001-01-01
language: Swedish
is part of: https://doi.org/10.5878/weg9-0002
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keywords: Social welfare systems/structures
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description: Groups of individuals that differ from the majority of population in some way. Differentiating characteristics include, for instance, ethnicity, religion, health, sexual orientation, first language (mother tongue) and culture. Use note: For some minority issues, it may be useful to select additional topics such as 'Equality, inequality and social exclusion' or 'Language and linguistics'.
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Social welfare systems/structures
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PENSIONS
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INCOME DISTRIBUTION
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SICK PAY
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