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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!

Nekby, Lena - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010

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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Same, Same but (Initially) Different? The Social Integration of Natives and Immigrants in Sweden

Nekby, Lena - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010

, divorce, partner age gaps, female employment rates and female education levels. A process of social integration is found for …

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Wage Effects of Immigration in a Bargaining Economy

Lundborg, Per - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2013

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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Children's First Names and Immigration Background in France

Arai, Mahmood; Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Skalli, Ali - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009

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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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2011

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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Immigrant Women and Entrepreneurship: A Study of the Health Care Sector in Sweden, 2002-2006

Korpi, Martin; Hedberg, Charlotta; Pettersson, Katarina - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2013

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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Proceedings of 2010 International Symposium: Labor Employment and Income Distribution Studies : [... held on Nov. 13 - 14th 2010 ...]

Yang, Heqing (contributor) - International Symposium of Labor Employment and Income … - 2010

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