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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321631
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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert J.; Åslund, Olof - 2000
of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321782
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316922
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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 Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration
Åslund, Olof - 2000
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321815
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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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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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Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants
Åslund, Olof - 2001
This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual's birth country and large overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321012
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Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings
Åslund, Olof; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2003
This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321022