such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …

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 … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants' well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …

lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …

low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …

Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow … of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that …

immigration to Europe in recent decades will likely lead to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits … a nationwide program placing refugees in municipalities throughout Sweden during the period 1985-94 to isolate exogenous …

areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect … relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card and Lewis' study uses variations across geographies, this paper … relationship between the composition of Mexican immigrants across occupations/industries and average wages in the occupations …