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refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage …
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Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a … refugees' labour market performance. Specifically, we examine the employment effects of the 2010 reform of the introduction … program (known as IP), and how the effects vary depending on refugees' educational attainment. Given that the eligibility for …
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A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June …
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arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but … similar for men and women, and present for migrants from different parts of the world. The bonus had a less clear impact on …
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Welfare Chauvinism in Sweden -- Binds and Bridges to Protection in Crisis: The Case of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth from … Afghanistan in Sweden -- The Tricky Thing of Implementing Migration Policies: Insights from Return Policies in Sweden -- Migration … in Sweden -- Loyalty and Integration among Young Adults with Minority Backgrounds in Norway -- Immigrant Integration and …
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civil wars and natural catastrophes that generate rapid and unexpected flows of refugees into a country unrelated to their …
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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 …
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Flight and migration are old and global phenomena. However, last year the number of refugees to Europe and especially …
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Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The … relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … crime incidents committed by refugees; there is no change in crimes committed by natives on those islands. We find a …
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