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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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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …

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Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation

Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...

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Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …

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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Bergström, Lina; van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...

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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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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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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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Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study

Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …

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The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …

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