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Ethno-linguistic Groups during an Economic Recession: Low-income Earners in the 1990s’ Finland
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Ethno-linguistic Groups during an Economic Recession: Low-income Earners in the 1990s’ Finland
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The authors examine how low-income earners within the minority Swedish-speaking community in Finland were positioned as compared to Finnish speakers during the economic recession in the 1990s, and contract this European minority community to the ethno-linguistic English-speaking minority in Quebec during this same period. The authors point out that compared to Quebec, no unfavourable language laws or educational reforms were imposed on the Swedish speakers during the study period. The authors conclude that the low-income members of the Swedish-speaking minority improved their relative situation as compared with Finnish speakers (although on average they continued to have a higher propensity for being low-income earners after the recession), and the results reflect a well-functioning welfare state in Finland in which language laws and constitutional rights have worked to protect both the majority and minority linguistic groups.
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Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
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Vol. 49
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87-103
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2014
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en
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Härtull, Camilla, and Jan Saarela. “Ethno-Linguistic Groups during an Economic Recession: Low-Income Earners in the 1990s’ Finland.” Finnish Yearbook of Population Research Vol. 49 (2014): 87–103. http://www.vasa.abo.fi/users/jsaarela/manuscripts/Finnish%20Yearbook%20of%20Population%20Research,%202014,%2049,%2087-103.pdf.
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