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Labor Market Integration of Low-Educated Refugees: RCT Evidence from an Ambitious Integration Program in Sweden

Dahlberg, Matz; Egebark, Johan; Vikman, Ulrika; Özcan, … - 2020

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the …

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Getting the first job: Size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2018

integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighbourhoods we find robust empirical evidence that the … integration of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighbourhood …

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Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study

Ek, Simon; Hammarstedt, Mats; Skedinger, Per - 2021

We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly assigned fictitious Syrian refugees with experience in jobs with low skill requirements and...

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Political hedgehogs: The geographical sorting of refugees in Sweden

Wennström, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2019

peripheral and rural areas with high unemployment and rapid native depopulation where the prospects for integration, both …

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Political Hedgehogs : The Geographical Sorting of Refugees in Sweden

Wennström, Johan - 2019

peripheral and rural areas with high unemployment and rapid native depopulation where the prospects for integration, both …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891094

Ethnic enclaves and immigrant self-employment: A neighborhood analysis of enclave size and quality

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Öner, Özge - 2017

We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...

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Immigrants' tolerance and integration into society

Berggren, Niclas; Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2022

We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … individual-level economic, civic-political, and cultural integration outcomes for immigrants of the second generation with data … integration among children of immigrants in European societies. …

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Ethnic Differences in Long-Term Self-Employment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats; … - 2020

We study ethnic differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique survey targeting a large representative sample of the total population of long-term self-employed. Using the registers, we analyze the evolution of labor and capital income...

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Minimum Wages and the Integration of Refugee Immigrants

Lundborg, Per; Skedinger, Per - 2014

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees in Sweden; different estimation methods and models...

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How international experience helps shape labor market outcomes

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2022

This paper examines how experience from working in a foreign owned firm affects worker mobility. International experience can provide a worker with knowledge about foreign operations, thereby making them more attractive to other employers who are also engaged in international businesses. We...

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