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Measuring the importance of labor market networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008

We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...

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Economic and ethnic polarisation among children in Sweden's three metropolitan areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2007

metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …

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Disparities in social assistance receipt between immigrants and natives in Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - 2011

Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …

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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...

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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?

Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - 2014

immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …

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Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Mac Innes, Hanna; … - 2016

This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We …

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Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan S...

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016

individuals who were born in 1974 and lived in metropolitan Sweden in both 1990 and 2006. During this period, the distribution of … income in Sweden became far more unequal, unemployment rose dramatically, earlier housing policies were dismantled, the share … adults. Several measures indicate that intergenerational persistency in context is lower in metropolitan Sweden than was …

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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2020

Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...

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In and Out of Privileged and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Sweden – On the Importance of Country of Birth

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Österberg, Torun - 2023

metropolitan Sweden are studied using register data on all moves by adults that took place between 2004 and 2006. Based on …

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