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Skans, Oskar Nordström; Aslund, Olof; Bohlmark, Anders - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...

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Childhood and Family Experiences and the Social Integration of Young Migrants

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Skans, Oskar Nordström - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

We use sibling variation in age at migration to study how early life exposure to the host country affects social integration in adulthood. Building on a Swedish population-wide dataset, we show that early experiences affect the probability of living close to, working with, and marrying other...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

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Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Residential Assignment Program

Grönqvist, Hans; Johansson, Per; Niknami, Susan - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

This paper investigates how income inequality affects health. Although a large literature has shown that inhabitants in … areas with greater income inequality suffer from worse health, past studies are severely plagued by inadequate data, non … empirical analysis reveals no statistically significant effect of income inequality on the probability of being hospitalized …

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Immigration: The European Experience

dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their...

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Immigration: The European Experience

dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Drinkwater, Stephen; Crawley, Heaven; Kauser, Rukhsana - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the number of asylum applications reached their highest levels....

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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Farré, Lidia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...

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Low-skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-use Data

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Sevilla, Almudena - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that...

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