This paper by the Finnish Institute for Economic Research documents Finland’s policy response to the 2015 increase in asylum applications. It also analysed the labour market performance of migrants who arrived in Finland before 2015.

Results show that during the period 1990–2013, migrants born in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia had substantially lower employment rates, earned less, and received more social benefits than any other migrant group and native Finnish citizens. Although the migrant-native gaps in employment and earnings decreased over time but remained large. Ten years after arriving in Finland, the average salary of an migrant men from these countries was 22–38 percent of the average for native men of the same age. Women earned even less.