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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990–91 adversely … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990–91 is associated with 2.9 percentage …
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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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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 … shift in emphasis of integration policy from a policy focusing on labor market assimilation to one of income support. …
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We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …
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choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from …
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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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In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for … share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality immigrants first arrive into, effects the probability of self-employment …
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) of mothers. We use variation in pre-K rules across all US states, including income eligibility requirements in some … of metropolitan areas, and with income either below 200 percent or above 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Our …
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Using the American Community Survey between 2005 and 2019, this paper investigates the role constraints to migration might play in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in the labor market. We find that Black workers are typically less responsive than White workers to changes in job...
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