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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common labour market of EES/EU in 1994, no transitional rules introduced at the enlargement of European Union in 2004 and 2007, and opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU...
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In this paper we study the effects on support for different political parties due to an increase in the immigrant share in Danish municipalities during the period 1989-2001. We find that the immigrant share has some notable effects. The anti-immigration parties are among those that win votes...
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years is observed for the younger age groups. Furthermore, gender composition is also age dependent, where it is quite …
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from characteristics (age, gender, education). Many have to rely on the social transfer payments including social …
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overrepresented in the sector. Immigrants are on average slightly older than the natives who work in TEAs, they are more often married …
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work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by … and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does not include large groups in the labour market …. Many of those who have tenured positions work part-time, not full-time, and many both full-time and part-time workers have …
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Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to their employees. We analyze the national composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ workers from their home region and if self-employed natives mainly employ native workers. We find...
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When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as incomes from being an employee. On the other...
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to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who … deliver labor, since they are in the work place. Secondly, the result of a person's work varies with the price of labor … (remuneration) and how the work is organized. Thirdly, the definition of work or a job for an employed person is not fixed but …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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