We study the economic integration of immigrants from Ottoman Syria and Turkey and their offspring in the US using full count census data for the period 1900 to 1940. Using imputed earnings measures we find significant premiums for men on arrival in the US, but significant penalties when using...

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...