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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.

Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert J.; Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …. However, not adjusting for emigration leads to overestimating the rate of economic assimilation, for Nordic and OECD …

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Taxes and Job Mobility in the Swedish Labor Market.

Lundborg, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1995

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Naturalizations and the economic and social integration of immigrants

Engdahl, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

I study the effects of naturalizations on labor market outcomes and family formation. The results show that naturalizations are associated with improving economic outcomes for immigrants from outside the OECD. The strength of the correlation varies depending on the country group and gender. A...

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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration.

Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...

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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration

Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration.

Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669583

Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...

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Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure

Holter, Hans A - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

I document a strong negative cross-country correlation between intergenerational earnings persistence and tax progressivity, and between intergenerational earnings persistence and public expenditure on tertiary education. To explain these correlations I then develop an intergenerational...

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Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure

Holter, Hans A - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...

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