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The labor market impact of a taxi driver's license
Karadja, Mounir; Sundberg, Anton - 2023
We study the economic impact of becoming a taxi driver. Comparing individuals who pass the necessary written exams for a taxi driver's license to individuals who have not yet done so, we find that both immigrants and natives who enter into taxi driving have experienced negative employment...
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Labor market integration of low-educated refugees: RCT evidence from an ambitious integration program in Sweden
Dahlberg, Matz; Egebark, Johan; Vikman, Ulrika; Özcan, … - 2020
This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the …
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of individuals, and their household members, which is representative for the population during the period 1960 to 1998. As future years become available, this information will be added...
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Getting the first job: Size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry
Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2019
integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighborhoods, we find robust empirical evidence that the … integration of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighborhood tend …
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Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants
Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias; Willis, Sébastien - 2024
We study how professional networks are related to immigrant labour market integration. Matched employer-employee data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014541018
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The Effect of Emigration on Unemployment: Evidence from the Central and Eastern European EU Member States
Pryymachenko, Yana; Fregert, Klas; Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2011
This paper contributes to the scant empirical literature on the effects of emigration on source countries' labour … markets. Using a novel dataset by Brücker et al. (2009), we investigate whether emigration from the Central and Eastern … decade, emigration indeed had a strong negative effect on unemployment in these countries. A 10 per cent increase in …
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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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Unemployment and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union: A Statistical Analysis
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco - 1996
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the attitudes towards foreigners displayed by European citizens. It is found that, holding other things constant, unemployed Europeans do not have more negative attitudes towards foreigners than the employed. On the other hand, an increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334277
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Migration constraints and disparate responses to changing job opportunities
Burns, Kalee E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2019
Using the Current Population Survey between 1996 and 2018, this paper investigates the role constraints to migration might play in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in the labor market. The Delta Index of dissimilarity is used to illustrate a greater distributional mismatch between...
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
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