Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish … behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting patterns within Sweden’s largest commuting zone. We find that newly … arrived immigrants file fewer deductions than natives, that immigrants with a longer duration of stay in the host country …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans … instrumental variable approach that deals with the possibly endogenous allocation of immigrants and allows for causal …

We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally … immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals’ beliefs about the need for immigrants’ cultural assimilation. Empirical … evidence based on data from countries of wider Europe supports our theory. An expert survey-based measure of the longevity of …

workers shows that our findings are consistent with white-collar immigrants capturing an informational rent. The evidence …