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Endogenous Leverage and Asset Pricing in Double Auctions

Breuer, Thomas; Summer, Martin; Vollbrecht, Hans-Joachim - 2013

We study the trading of real assets financed by collateralized loans in an agent based model of a continuous double auction. This approach provides a complementary perspective on recent advances in the general equilibrium theory of endogenous leverage by studying a model that simultaneously...

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 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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Civil liberties and social structure

Erol, Selman; García Jimeno, Camilo - 2024

social structure and civil liberties. We show that segregation and unequal treatment sustain each other as coordination …

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...

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Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985 - 2002

Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005

We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working …-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the … distribution of human capital, industry and geography. We find considerable workplace segregation between immigrants and natives …

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School choice and segregation: Evidence from an admission reform

Söderström, Martin; Uusitalo, Roope - 2005

This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that … new admission policy increased segregation by ability. However, segregation by family background, as well as, segregation …

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The making of ethnic segregation in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment

Bursell, Moa; Bygren, Magnus - 2023

suggest that employers do contribute to this type of segregation. While ethnic discrimination is pervasive in the 'native …

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 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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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013

In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...

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Race, power, and the subprime/forceclosure crisis: A mesoanalysis

Dymski, Gary A.; Hernandez, Jesus; Mohanty, Lisa - 2011

latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation …

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