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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?

Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories

van Ham, Maarten; Hedman, Lina; Manley, David; Coulter, Rory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...

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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Bjorn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …

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Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants

Tammaru, Tiit; Strömgren, Magnus; van Ham, Maarten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

unique longitudinal register data from Sweden, we show that the role of residential segregation in workplace segregation …

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Sweden’s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …

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Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach

Gustafsson, Bjorn; Jansson, Birgitta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using …

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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...

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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy

Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...

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A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database

Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyses the determinants and impact of labour market reforms in the European Union over the period of 2000-2011. The source of information on reforms is the LABREF database developed in DG ECFIN of the European Commission in cooperation with the Economic Policy Committee of the...

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