in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are … for by measured and unmeasured worker skills. These results suggest that wage differences across occupations with … different densities of immigrants are mainly due to quality sorting and to a lesser extent due to the existence of …

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells … substantial proportion of the observed difference in unemployment spells between natives and immigrants can be explained by …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel …. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social … assistance less than refugee immigrants. Differences in welfare participation and number of months on welfare between immigrants …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large …"This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large …

In this paper, we develop and estimate a structural, dynamic model of schooling decisions using data extracted from the … explore how a 25 percent increase in future wages for PSE students will affect current schooling decisions. This leads to an …

supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the unexplained gender wage gap vary across occupations and find that this … wage-experience profiles are different across occupations. Our results indicate that women have flatter wage …-experience profiles in female dominated occupations than in male dominated occupations. …

low degree of risk aversion implies that an increase in earnings dispersion would have little effect on schooling …We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred … from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but …

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of … the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human … indicate that individuals who have the higher returns to schooling are also those who have the higher returns to experience …