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Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …
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Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of … explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in Sweden, controlling for a range of … for this analysis consists of register data on the whole population of Sweden held by Statistics Sweden for the year 2006 …
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enter the labor market. We focus on two countries—Finland and Sweden—that have similar formal institutions but starkly …
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influence who we marry and our labor market outcomes. This study uses panel data on immigrants and their spouses in Sweden to …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …
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Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …
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this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions … outside and within Sweden. We apply fixed-effect methods to a sample of about 9,000 brothers. We effectively exploit that for …
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We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high …
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refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is …
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