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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 …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the...
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, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
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residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults … particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and … strong impact on the marriage patterns of females. …
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This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area...
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such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …
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of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants' well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden …
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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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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 …
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We document that home ownership of households with 'heads' aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities seemingly made it...
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