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 …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in …

prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to … to migrants seeking protection, beyond humanitarian policy concerns, carry substantial economic costs. …