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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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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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Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s … that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially higher …

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The Duration of Immigrants? Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen - 2000

differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique …

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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2000

We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results …

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Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Flood, Lennart; Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2003

supply among two-parent families in Sweden is quite inelastic. A policy simulation designed to increase labor supply …

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Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2004

This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model …

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Wages and immigrant occupational composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes …

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An auction model of Canadian temporary immigration for the 21st century

DeVoretz, Don J. - 2005

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers to include trade-related temporary visas under NAFTA and the GATS. Several questions emerge under these temporary schemes including who should choose the number of temporary...

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