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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration
Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
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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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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Grönqvist; Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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/10008458263
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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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/10005190470
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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196926
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee place¬ment policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764805
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774231
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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 Thailand's Economy
OECD / Development Centre; Internationales Arbeitsamt - 2017
particular appears to increase paid employment opportunities. Immigration is also likely to raise income per capita in Thailand …The effects of immigration on the Thai economy are considerable, as the number of immigrants has increased rapidly … services. Immigration is associated with an improvement of labour market outcomes of the native-born population, and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889343
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Say it like Goethe : language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants
Jaschke, Philipp; Keita, Sekou - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2019
Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high … services abroad on language skills at immigration trace back directly to migrants' participation in language courses, revealing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028241