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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>Due to the agreement of a common Nordic labour market, Finns have for several decades constituted the largest immigrant group in Sweden. However, there have been few studies explicitly concerned with how well they are integrated in the labour market. This paper attempts to fill part of this gap by studying how they succeeded before and after the economic crisis in the 1990s. Employment levels and earnings of Finnish immigrants in prime working ages are compared with those of native Swedes by utilizing matched cross sections of the total population from 1990 and 2001. We aim to see how much of any differential can be attributed to simple background factors such as age, gender, educational level, and county of residence. Our findings reveal that earnings and employment levels of Finnish males are about 10 per cent lower than those of native Swedes, and that this performance gap tends to have become wider over time. There is, however, substantial variation across immigrant cohorts, and differentials in educational levels play a significant role only with regard to the earnings gap. In contrast with the males, Finnish females tend to be better integrated, as their labour market outcomes are very similar to those of native Swedes.</jats:p>