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Crime as a Price of Inequality? The Delinquency Gap between Children of Immigrants and Children of Native Swedes

Hällsten, Martin; Sarnecki, Jerzy; Szulkin, Ryszard - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2011

We examine the gap in registered crime between the children of immigrants and the children of native Swedes. Our study … underprivileged in those resources, a gap in crime may occur. In the empirical analyses we follow all individuals who completed …, which are measured in 2005. For males, we are generally able to explain between half and three-quarters of this gap in crime …

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Who is Hurt by Discimination?

Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2008

The effects of discrimination of immigrants on the labour market are studied within a search and wage …-bargaining setting including a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. The negative effects of discrimination in the … exacerbates the problems of discrimination. …

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Do Domestic Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Ethnic Labor Market Gaps in Sweden

Nekby, Lena; Özcan, Gülay - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2007

The importance of investing in host country-specific human capital such as domestic language proficiency and domestic education is often cited as a determining factor for the labor market success of immigrants. This suggests that entirely domestic educations should even out the playing field...

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TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants based on Random Program Assignment - Mid Progra...

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009

A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was set up in October 2006 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other labor market activities...

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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2007

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...

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'Neighbourhood Effects' and 'City Effects': Immigrants' Transition to Employment in Swedish Large City-Regions

Hedberg, Charlotta; Tammaru, Tiit - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010

An important debate in current research and policy focuses on the role of spatial characteristics and urban residential segregation on the social mobility of immigrants. Much focus has been on ‘neighbourhood effects’, and on how internal spatial variations within the city affects the life...

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Do Attitudes Towards Immigrants Matter?

Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2008

of labour market discrimination. The same reduction in negative attitudes would increase the welfare of immigrants from …

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Does Immigration Induce ‘Native Flight’ from Public Schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program

Gerdes, Christer - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010

Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Immigrant Mothers and their Daughters in Sweden

Niknami, Susan - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010

This study uses extensive Swedish register data to analyze the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrant mothers and their daughters. The results show that the transmission is only slightly lower among daughters of immigrant mothers compared to native daughters. The...

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Intersections of Immigrant status and Gender in the Swedish Entrepreneurial Landscape

Hedberg, Charlotta - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009

Labour markets in welfare states are structured along the lines of gender and immigrant & minority statuses. This paper brings novel insights into the issue of ethnic entrepreneurship as a means of sustainable inclusion of immigrants into the labour market by adding a gender dimension. Based on...

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