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Age at migration and social integration
Skans, Oskar Nordström; Aslund, Olof; Bohlmark, Anders - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317958
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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/10009317959
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Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Residential Assignment Program
Grönqvist, Hans; Johansson, Per; Niknami, Susan - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
This paper investigates how income inequality affects health. Although a large literature has shown that inhabitants in areas with greater income inequality suffer from worse health, past studies are severely plagued by inadequate data, non-random residential sorting and reverse causality. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319147
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Childhood and Family Experiences and the Social Integration of Young Migrants
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Skans, Oskar Nordström - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
We use sibling variation in age at migration to study how early life exposure to the host country affects social integration in adulthood. Building on a Swedish population-wide dataset, we show that early experiences affect the probability of living close to, working with, and marrying other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391404
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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391405
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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421742
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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain
Drinkwater, Stephen; Crawley, Heaven; Kauser, Rukhsana - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839543
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How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: evidence from parallel time series
Ruist, Joakim - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in … immigration. As an illustration, the estimates indicate that the number of individuals in the average European country in 2012 who … were against all immigration from poorer countries or of foreign ethnicities was 40% higher than it would have been if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839547
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Is institutional trust related to the attitudes towards immigrants in Europe? A study of majority and minority population
PAAS, TIIU; Halapuu, Vivika; Tammaru, Tiit - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
The paper examines the factors that are related to attitudes towards immigrants in Europe, with a particular focus on the role of institutional trust in shaping these attitudes. We go one step further compared to previous studies by investigating separately two different groups of people —...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640650
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The value of earning for learning: Performance bonuses in immigrant language training
Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603516