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Emigration of immigrants and measures of immigrant assimilation : evidence from Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert John; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588147
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262321
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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert J.; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321782
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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries
Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2020
We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154611
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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out-of welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318604
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Local unemployment and the earnings assimilation of immigrants in Norway
Barth, Erling; Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn - 2002
declining unemployment are important to identify assimilation effects on immigrant earnings. We show that this is the case for … that local labour market conditions impact the rate of the earnings assimilation. We interpret the effect of unemployment … on the assimilation rate in terms of a combined wage curve effect” and a “learning effect” on the rate at which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284468
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Local unemployment and the relative wages of immigrants: Evidence from the current population surveys
Barth, Erling; Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn - 2002
in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation in … unemployment, we find that wage assimilation among lesser-educated immigrants is negligible and that the immigrant-native wage gap … is strongly increasing in unemployment. For highly educated immigrants, rates of wage assimilation during early years in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284479
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(The struggle for) refugee integration into the labour market : evidence from Europe
Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2018
are also relatively weaker. This gap persists until about 10 years after immigration. In the second part, we assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798172
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Chapter 12. The Refugee/Asylum Seeker
Chin, Aimee; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 585-658). 2015
This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025471
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Immigration and prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey
Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2016
estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a … approximately 2.5 percent due to immigration. Prices of goods and services have declined in similar magnitudes. We highlight that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449784