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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...

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The public charge rule and program participation among U.S. citizens

Butcher, Kristin F.; Hu, Luojia; Perry, Ryan - 2024

Use of public assistance by noncitizens is controversial. Before 2018, institutionalization and receipt of cash benefits were considered as evidence of whether immigrants were likely to become a "public charge" and, therefore, ineligible for citizenship. But a new rule-proposed in 2018 and...

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Immigration and election outcomes: Evidence from city districts in Hamburg

Otto, Alkis Henri; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on … reputation in immigration politics. In particular, our fixed-effects estimates indicate a positive effect for xenophobic, extreme … right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration policies and …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity - A comparative study of Europe and the United States

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...

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