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Do Domestic Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Ethnic Labor Market Gaps in Sweden

Nekby, Lena; Vilhelmsson, Roger; Özcan, Gülay - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2007

The importance of investing in host country-specific human capital such as domestic language proficiency and domestic education is often cited as a determining factor for the labor market success of immigrants. This suggests that entirely domestic educations should even out the playing field...

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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2007

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...

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A matter of transient anonymity: Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions

von Essen, Emma; Karlsson, Jonas Karlsson - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013

This study shows that transient anonymity affects buyer discrimination based on seller’s gender and foreignness in … auction ends, the seller’s name is always disclosed to the buyer by eBay. We explore buyers’ discrimination in willingness to … pay, measured as price. Furthermore, we study how buyers’ discrimination in providing feedback is affected by sellers …

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Employment Convergence of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

This study examines the employment convergence patterns of various immigrant groups to natives in Sweden. Using data with annual information (1990-1997) on more than 200,000 individuals, the probability of being regularly employed is estimated, by gender and region of birth, for immigrants...

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Identity and Social Distance in Friendship Formation

de Marti, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011

We analyze a network formation model where agents belong to different communities. Both individual benefits and costs depend on direct as well as indirect connections. Benefits of an indirect connection decrease with distance in the network while the cost of a link depends on the type of agents...

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Is It How You Look or Speak That Matters? - An Experimental Study Exploring the Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination

Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011

Using a unique laboratory experiment where subjects are asked to guess the test performance of candidates presented by facial portraits and voice messages, this paper explores the following questions: Are beliefs about performance affected by if a candidate is perceived to have looks that are...

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Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011

We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...

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Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul; Zenou, Yves Zenou - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

Using data from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey, this paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. Our empirical findings suggest that, though personal networks are a popular method of finding a job for the ethnic minorities, the foreign born and those who...

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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Nekby, Lena; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2012

In this paper, we return to the question raised in Dahlberg et al. (2012) concerning a causal relationship between ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution. A re-analysis of their study indicates that results are based on an endogenous instrument and severe sample attrition bias....

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