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Economic and Ethnic Polarization Among Children in Sweden's Three Metropolitan Areas
Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Osterberg, Torun - 2021
study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due … to differences in mean income across neighborhoods, the proportion had increased to as much as 22 percent in 2002. Ethnic …
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First Time Parents' Paid Work Patterns in Amsterdam : Father's Part-Time Work, Family's Immigrant Background and Mother's Work for Pay When the Infant is Very Young
Wetzels, C.M.M.P - 2021
We analyze first time parents' work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner's (change of) employment status. There is no study known to us that investigates the effects of the family's immigrant background. This study explores both issues in addition to the effects...
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development
Campbell, Stuart - 2019
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870467
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Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden : An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment
Celikaksoy, Aycan - 2015
The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes
Nekby, Lena; Rodin, Magnus - 2021
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317004
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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2021
promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324909
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War and Stature : Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Akresh, Richard - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915705
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048
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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
Algan, Yann - 2009
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155002