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

Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 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 or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …

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Employment Convergence of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

results indicate that employment <p> convergence occurs primarily during the first 10 to 15 years after <p> immigration and …This study examines the employment convergence patterns of <p> various immigrant groups to natives in Sweden. Using …

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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms 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...

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Children's First Names and Immigration Background in France

Arai, Mahmood; Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Skalli, Ali - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 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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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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