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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

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

A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...

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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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Are temporary work agencies stepping-stones into regular employment?

Hveem, Joakim - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2012

This paper estimates the causal effect of temporary work agency (TWA) employment on the subsequent probability of employment in the regular labor market. The main purpose is to estimate the stepping-stone effect separately for natives and immigrants, where the latter group potentially benefits...

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Immigrant Women and Entrepreneurship: A Study of the Health Care Sector in Sweden, 2002-2006

Korpi, Martin; Hedberg, Charlotta; Pettersson, Katarina - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2013

Using unique Swedish longitudinal full-population data and logistic regression, this paper explores whether start-ups of foreign born female heath care workers are structurally (i.e. comparatively higher unemployment and lower wages) or culturally (defined as country of birth) motivated. While...

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Is There Really a Backlash Against Multiculturalism Policies?

Banting, Keith; Kymlicka, Will - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2012

In much of the western world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has ‘failed’ and that governments who once embraced a multicultural approach to diversity are turning away, adopting a strong emphasis on civic integration. This reaction, we are...

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Children's First Names and Immigration Background in France

Arai, Mahmood; Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Skalli, Ali - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009

We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority population. When it comes to natives with an immigrant background, these differences are very little...

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Assortative Mating by Ethnic Background and Education in Sweden: The Role of Parental Composition on Partner Choice

Aycan, Çelikaksoy; Lena, Nekby; Saman, Rashid - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009

Assortative mating patterns in two dimensions namely, ethnic background and education are analysed in this paper for individuals with an immigrant background living in Sweden. We focus on the role of individual and spousal characteristics as well as the role of parental composition on...

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