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Emigration of immigrants and measures of immigrant assimilation : evidence from Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert John; Åslund, Olof - 2000
of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588147
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Immigrant settlement policies and subsequent migration
Åslund, Olof - 2000
Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589106
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Settlement policies and the economic success of immigrants
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589290
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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants : evidence from a natural experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000
such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460048
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof (contributor); Fredriksson, Peter (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002640757
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The value of earning for learning : performance bonuses in immigrant language training
Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2013
metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009698109
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Open borders, transport links and local labor markets
Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2013
variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743361
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2010
place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779141
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof (contributor) - 2009
refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909856
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How to measure segregation conditional on the distribution of covariates
Åslund, Olof (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604561