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Economic incentives and the timing of births: Evidence from the German parental benefit reform 2007
Ohlsson, Henry; Neugart, Michael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
Economic theory suggests that incentives matter for people's decisions. This paper investigates whether this also holds for less self-evident areas of life such as the timing of births. We make use of a nautral experiment when the German government changed its parental benefit system January 1,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506824
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Who Takes Care of the Children? The Quantity-Quality Model Revisited.
Lundhlom, M.; Ohlsson, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
parents. They can purchase day car e or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination …We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for … of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779764
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Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779753
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479127
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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190470
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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration
Åslund, Olof - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196917
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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196926
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Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634520
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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669580
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669583