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For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries as well as or other (non-Swedish) countries. A … intermarriage (intra-marriage) on annual income from any remaining positive selection effects into respective marriage type. Results …
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Most empirical studies on wage effects of immigration disregard common labour market institutions like the requirement … returns to its original level. The results suggest that empirical studies of wage effects of immigration should focus on …
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, divorce, partner age gaps, female employment rates and female education levels. A process of social integration is found for …
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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 …
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Using unique Swedish longitudinal full-population data and logistic regression, this paper explores whether start-ups of foreign born female heath care workers are structurally (i.e. comparatively higher unemployment and lower wages) or culturally (defined as country of birth) motivated. While...
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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...
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We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority population. When it comes to natives with an immigrant background, these differences are very little...
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