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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273967
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2010
We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321400
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321458
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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294933
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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?
Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - 2012
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335986
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Immigrants' return to schooling in Sweden
Nordin, Martin - 2007
The aim of this paper is to examine if the returns to immigrants’ schooling are lower than the returns to natives’ schooling. In addition the paper tries to establish whether immigrants who invest in different amounts of Swedish education also differ in their returns to schooling. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317932
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Determinants of Immigrants' Early Labor Market Integration
Svantesson, Elisabeth - 2006
This study investigates conditions favouring early labor marketintegration for immigrants in Sweden. The study is based on a survey among immigrants just two and a half years after they received a permanent residence permit. Factors such as work experience; Swedish spouse and the local labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654317
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336000
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Cultural Gender Norms and Neighbourhood Exposure: Impacts on the Gender Gap in Math
Ericsson, Sanna - 2020
This paper investigates the interaction between cultural norms and neighbourhood characteristics. I estimate the effect of cultural gender norms on the gender gap in math, and explore whether this effect is mitigated by municipality gender equality. I use high-quality Swedish administrative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208869
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Children use of emergency care: Differences between natives and migrants in Italy
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio; Turati, Gilberto; … - 2020
. Consistently with the literature, our findings show that migrants' children are characterized both by a higher probability to use …In this paper we study the differences between natives and migrants in the appropriate use of emergency care. We focus … on children under one year of age using a sample of more than 45,000 children living in the Metropolitan area of Milan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609089