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 …

such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …

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. …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from …

such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …

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 …

) 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 …