Tue, 03 Jun, 2014 01:15:22 AM Children of migrated residents comparatively less educated: VATT FTimes-STT Report, June 3  Migrated people are in a Finnish language class. Photo Lehtikuva. Immigration can improve Finland’s economic situation, if the newcomers can fare well in its labour market, reports a recent survey conducted by the Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT).
The study shows a huge difference between the immigrants and the native population in terms of employment and income and recommends improving the situation through successful integration policies.
The research also shows that individualised tailored integration programmes have increased the income of immigrants by almost half in a span of 10 years. In addition, the income redistribution from immigrants has been reduced.
This effect has mostly been evident in the addition of integration-based language training. “With a little effort, better results in other labour market policies have been vastly achieved,” said Principal Economist Kari Hämäläinen from VATT.
Migrated people seen to read newspapers. Photo Lehtikuva. There is no research data in the country on the effects immigration has on the native population.
According to VATT Senior Researcher Matti Sarvimäki, immigration to some Finns may mean increased competition in the labour market.
Based on other existing studies, Sarvimäki points out that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of the rest of the population is likely to be small.
The VATT research also shows that children of immigrants are less educated compared to their native counterparts.
Only a half of young people whose parents had migrated to Finland from countries outside the OECD cluster had, for example, managed to get some kind of qualification past the basic education by the time they reached 23 years.
Those with an immigrant background also use less medication but have more criminal convictions.
“It is wise to remember that children of immigrants grow in considerably lower-income families,” said Sarvimäki.
The difference is considerably reduced, if children with immigrant background are compared with other Finnish children who are raised in families with the same size and same income, he added.
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