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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition

DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000

The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Lindahl, Mikael; Björklund, Anders; Plug, Erik - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...

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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children?s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

Albrecht, James; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2001

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and …

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The origins of intergenerational associations: lessons from Swedish adoption data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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Nature and nurture in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status: evidence from Swedish children and their biological and rearing parents

Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Solon, Gary - 2007

This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons' and daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...

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Family background and income during the rise of the welfare state: brother correlations in income for Swedish men born 1932 - 1968

Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2007

Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … life chances in Sweden. …

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Does marriage matter for children? Assessing the causal impact of legal marriage

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2007

exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …

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Unionization and the evolution of the wage distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more scope for...

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