We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … (France, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom), growth positively causes immigration, whereas in any country, immigration … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while …

export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …

associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …