than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for natives. Comparison …We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived … heterogeneity, in overeducation, in returns to education and in birth-country coefficients, unexplained by wage models. Both the non …

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 concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods significantly increases …

education outcomes, where wages are driven by individuals' ex ante abilities and acquired math skills. A large portion of within …

Equality of opportunity has been one of the central ideas governing education policy in the Nordic welfare state. This …'s introduced pedagogical as well as organizational variety in the education system in Sweden. The Swedish choice reform … is unique in an international perspective, and has reshaped the education sector dramatically as a growing number of …

the gender gap in math for second-generation immigrants. By contrasting the outcomes of opposite-sex siblings, I show that …