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Mapping experiences and research about unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden and other countries
Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2016
Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523168
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Mapping Experiences and Research About Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Sweden and Other Countries
Celikaksoy, Aycan - 2016
Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984846
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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2021
It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316915
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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803329
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The impact of forced migration on in-group and out-group social capital
Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022
In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … disparity between in-group and out-group social capital. This may cause refugees to favor in-group interactions and therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162304
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Ethnic networks and the employment of asylum seekers : evidence from Germany
Stips, Felix; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020
Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159136
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269449
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The economic determinants of ethnic assimilation
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2006
Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other mechanisms that blur distinctions and lead to the disappearance of ethnic identities. Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272750
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Spatial versus social mismatch: The strength of weak ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278389
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321400