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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...

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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...

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How important is access to jobs? Old questions - improved answer

Åslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - 2006

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...

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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees

Andersson, Henrik - 2018

In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...

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Tipping and the effects of segregation

Böhlmark, Anders; Willén, Alexander - 2017

We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labor market outcomes of … discontinuous jump in ethnic residential segregation. We exploit these thresholds to estimate the intent-to-treat effect of tipping …

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Immigration and election outcomes: Evidence from city districts in Hamburg

Otto, Alkis Henri; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on city districts in Hamburg, Germany, during a period of substantial inflows of immigrants and asylum seekers. We find significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

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Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985 - 2002

Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005

We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working …-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the … distribution of human capital, industry and geography. We find considerable workplace segregation between immigrants and natives …

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