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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531410
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Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants
Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001
This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual’s birth country and large overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651867
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Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings
Åslund, Olof; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003
This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651908
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Global estimates of modern slavery : forced labour and forced marriage
Internationales Arbeitsamt; Walk Free Foundation; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013492829
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Income inequality and health: lessons from a refugee residential assignment program
Grönqvist, Hans; Johansson, Per; Niknami, Susan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818782
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement – evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042213
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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207255
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Causes and consequences of the gender-specific migration from East to West Germany
Melzer, Silvia Maja - 2016
Obwohl die deutsche Wiedervereinigung mehr als 25 Jahre zurückliegt, bestehen bis heute Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Lebensstandards und Chancen ziehen viele Menschen von Ost nach West. Silvia Maja Melzer analysiert theoretisch wie empirisch...
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Causes and consequences of the gender-specific migration from East to West Germany
Melzer, Silvia Maja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479854
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How immigrants contribute to the Dominican Republic's economy
OECD / Development Centre; Internationales Arbeitsamt - 2018
the most of immigration. This report finds that the immigration in the Dominican Republic has a varying but limited … aiming to facilitate the integration of immigrants and a better inclusion of immigration into different sectoral policies …, economic growth, and public finance – of immigration in ten partner countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950620