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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rodin, Magnus - 2021

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the …

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Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden : An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment

Çelikaksoy, Aycan - 2015

The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives … the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay …

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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Gobillon, Laurent - 2013

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...

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Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2021

ethnic group living nearby, the higher the employment rate of this ethnic group; (ii) this effect decays very rapidly with …

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Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation : Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context Among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan ...

Gustafsson, Björn - 2016

income in Sweden became far more unequal, unemployment rose dramatically, earlier housing policies were dismantled, the share … average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use regression analysis on register data for all … individuals who were born in 1974 and lived in metropolitan Sweden in both 1990 and 2006. During this period, the distribution of …

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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...

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The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

contrast how lower income Hispanic and African-American men fared during the civil rights era relative to lower-income non … significant acceleration following the Civil Rights Act in the relative earnings of low-income Hispanic men …

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2021

promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …

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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

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