We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation … invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capitalis not immediately transferable to the host country face lower …

the largest decrease are in art, culture, and recreation (-14.8 percent); in education, law and social, commu- nity and …

This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the …-generation immigrants living in the United States with their corresponding annual country of ancestry’s Gender Gap Index (GGI). Because all …

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship … literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity …

In this paper, we examine whether culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue …, we use data on early-arrival first and second generation immigrants living in the United States. Since all these … gender division of housework may be due to cultural differences. We find that the higher the culture of gender equality in …

In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data … on first-generation immigrants who arrived in the United States under 6 years old. Following the epidemiological approach …, those early-arrival immigrants grew up under the same US laws, markets, and institutions, so any dissimilarity in the …