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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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Self-employed immigrants and their employees : evidence from Swedish employer-employee data

Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018

We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points for their time immigration to Sweden. High...

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Explaining cross-country differences in labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD

Bergh, Andreas - 2014

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine … unemployment gap is bigger in countries where collective bargaining agreements cover a larger share of the labor market. The …

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Roots of tolerance among second-generation immigrants

Berggren, Niclas; Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2019

informal institutions - that predict their level of tolerance towards gay people. Using the epidemiological method allows us to … valuing children taking responsibility), as well as impartial institutions in the ancestral country, predict higher individual …

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Do equal rights for a minority affect general life satisfaction?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2017

While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions … latter type of institutions relates to general life satisfaction. The question is how people in general are affected by laws …

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