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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274099
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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262250
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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States
Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268661
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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269706
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Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy: The Spanish case
Simón, Hipólito; Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278443
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The short- and long-run determinants of less-educated immigration into US states
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012
This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to existing literature by decomposing income differentials into short- and long-term components and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286878
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Immigrant child poverty in Scandinavia: a panel data study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269314
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398233
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959693
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Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004563