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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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This study investigates conditions favouring early labor marketintegration for immigrants in Sweden. The study is based … on a survey among immigrants just two and a half years after they received a permanent residence permit. Factors such as …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …
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same time expected to experience substantial difficulties in finding work. Using supported employment methods, the SIN … experience schemes, and improved future employment probabilities for those who entered these schemes. …
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Many immigrants who come to Sweden are offered an introduction program. This is supposed to allow the individual to … information on introduction activities, we investigate the impact of different introduction activities on the immigrants …' employment probability, in a short-run perspective. Our basic findings are that some activities, such as labor market practice …
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the employed. On the other hand, an increased concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods significantly increases … increased visibility of immigrants in Europe, not the rise of unemployment rates per se, that has been associated with recent …
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employed in a triangular mode of employment (employee-contractor-client). The latter involves precarious employment and is more … common among the more vulnerable sub-populations of new-immigrants, disabled individuals, Israeli-Arabs, foreign-workers and …
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We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent … than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for natives. Comparison …
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We study the impact of asylum waiting, exploiting a rapid increase in processing times for asylum seekers to Sweden in 2014. Longer waiting slows down the integration process and affects labor market outcomes for an extended period. Accumulated earnings during the first four years after...
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