This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the …

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and unexpected recession to refugees arriving in a preceding economic …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden …

spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus …