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Emigration of immigrants and measures of immigrant assimilation : evidence from Sweden

Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert John; Åslund, Olof - 2000

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are …

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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants : evidence from a natural experiment

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...

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The value of earning for learning : performance bonuses in immigrant language training

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2013

arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … similar for men and women, and present for migrants from different parts of the world. The bonus had a less clear impact on … metropolitan areas. -- immigration ; language training ; performance bonus …

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Immigrant settlement policies and subsequent migration

Åslund, Olof - 2000

Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...

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