We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage …

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

other countries. In this paper we study the labour market situation in terms of employment and income for those who have …More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe … arrived as unaccompanied minors and have been registered in Sweden. We compare them with those who also arrived as minors from …

This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions … rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and unexpected recession to refugees arriving in a preceding economic …

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 …

' employment prospects. Relying on detailed data from the French Labor Force Survey, we measure diversity at two geographic levels …: the neighborhood and the local labor market. The correlation between diversity and employment varies accordingly: it is … precise localization of the data. The negative effect of diversity on employment at the neighborhood level is reinforced. We …

proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … their ethnic origin. Language has a strong and positive effects on employment probabilities. Furthermore, lack of English …