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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013394329
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Housing inequality in the United States: a decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2009
, as well as the distinct immigration experiences and spatial patterns that shape racial and ethnic inequality in … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration … the importance of immigration and spatial context in determining Asian and Mexican homeownership rates, and emphasize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266598
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Determinants of minority: white differentials in child poverty
Elmelech, Yuval - 2005
arrangements, parental work patterns, and immigration attributes shape racial and ethnic variation in child poverty. Results from … especially consequential for black and Puerto-Rican economic circumstances. Child immigration generation and parental length of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266609
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273949
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
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The wage impact of undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Rios-Avila, … - 2012
Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292317
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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294910
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Immigrant parents' attributes versus discrimination: New evidence in the debate about the creation of second generation educational outcomes in Israel
Perlmann, Joel; Elmelech, Yuval - 2010
There is much interest in explaining the persistent ethnic gaps in education among Israeli Jews; specifically, the much lower attainments of those from Asian and African countries compared to the rest - Mizrahim vs. Ashkenazim, respectively. Some explanations (especially early ones) have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286511
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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees
Andersson, Henrik - 2018
In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013514
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Migrating natives and foreign immigration: Is there a preference for ethnic residential homogeneity?
Andersson, Henrik; Berg, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz - 2018
In this paper we investigate the migration behavior of the native population following foreign (refugee) immigration … immigration as captured by refugee shocks. We find no evidence of neither native flight nor native avoidance when studying the … group, we find that all natives, irrespective of their parents' foreign background, react similarly to increased immigration …
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