immigration and citizenship regimes. In the first, immigrants stay permanently in the country and citizenship is obtained by … birthplace (jus soli). In the second regime immigration is also permanent but citizenship is passed only by bloodline (jus …

Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of … residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual citizenship has been allowed since 2001. During … explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in Sweden, controlling for a range of …

citizenship. In this paper I argue that both the degree of immigrant naturalization and subsequent emigration from Canada is … conditioned by economic opportunities and Canadian citizenship policies. A triangular model of movement comprising the concept of … stay or leave after citizenship ascension. Limited evidence is presented to support the conclusion that recently …

In 2010, an amendment to the Dominican constitution weakened the concept of jus soli citizenship by denying Dominican … citizenship requirements retroactively to 1929. We gauge the impacts of changes to Dominican citizenship laws on Haitian … citizenship in various regions of the world today, it is important to further explore how these policies ultimately impact …

a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two …, we exploit discontinuities in the reforms' eligibility rules. Between 1991 and 1999, adolescents could obtain citizenship … performance. Based on the eligibility rules, we find few returns of citizenship for men, but substantial returns for women …

native peers was affected by a major integration reform: the introduction of birthright citizenship. Our unique setup …

This paper examines resident foreigners' interest in German citizenship. The study focuses on the roles played by … Research of the University of Cologne. We find that some of the significant negative factors that affect citizenship interest …

In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting … citizenship rights not only increase the propensity to naturalize but may also promote economic assimilation. The effects of dual … citizenship on improved economic performance, if mediated through naturalization, are consistent with American citizenship …

Several European countries have reformed their citizenship policies over the past decades. There is much to learn from … their experience of how citizenship works; for whom it works; and what rules and policies matter for integration. The … citizenship increases take-up and improves the economic, educational, political and social integration of immigrants. Other …