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such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …
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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage …
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Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow … one of income support. …
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and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and …
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identity and employment prospects for immigrants from non-European countries. We find that a strong attachment to religion is … sentiment is preserved, the employment penalty is amplified. Our results also suggest that the strength of a person’s ethnic … identity and its relationship with employment prospects may depend on the type of integration policy performed in the country …
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The attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social exclusion and of the welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by the ethnic composition of the locality in which...
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proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … their ethnic origin. Language has a strong and positive effect on employment probabilities. Furthermore, lack of English …
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Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …
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wages for part-time and full-time employment that depend also on some inherent skill ‘endowment’ and labour market …
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