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- Edin, Per-Anders, et al.
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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersi
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- Edin, Per-Anders, et al.
(författare)
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Swimming with the tide : solidarity wage policy and the gender earnings gap
- 2000
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics (forthcoming). ; , s. 31-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women’s wages have varied over time and have had partly counte
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- Edin, Per-Anders, et al.
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Trade, earnings and mobility : Swedish evidence
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade: Swedish exports (imports) raise (lower) annual earnings, but changes in trade affect earnings just as any other shift in market conditions. In general, the wage effects are small; the prime response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has differential effects across skill groups. However, we do not find systematic differences in the effects of trade across the earnings distribution.
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- Åslund, Olof, et al.
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Emigration of immigrants and measures of immigrant assimilation : evidence from Sweden
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. Further, within these two groups, it is the least economically successful who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants’ well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden. However, not adjusting for emigration leads to overestimating the rate of economic assimilation, for Nordic and OECD immigrants by about much as 75 percent or more
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- Åslund, Olof, et al.
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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants : evidence from a natural experiment
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic ”enclaves” within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way that may be considered exogenous. This policy initiative provides a unique natural experiment, which allows us to estimate the causal effect on labor market outcomes of living in enclaves. We find substantive evidence of sorting across locations. When sorting is taken into account, living in enclaves improves labor market outcomes; for instance, the earnings gain associated with a standard deviation increase in ethnic concentration is in the order of four to five percent.
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- Åslund, Olof, et al.
(författare)
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Settlement policies and the economic success of immigrants
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the country, but also a change in the approach to labor market integration. We focus exclusively on how immigrants fared because of the policy. The results indicate that immigrants experienced fairly substantial long run losses because of the policy. We also find that only a smaller share of this effect was associated with the dispersion of immigrants across regions. The larger share of the impact appears to stem from a common component that affected immigrants regardless of where they were located. Our somewhat speculative reading of this result is that it can be traced to a shift in emphasis of integration policy from a policy focusing on labor market assimilation to one of income support.
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- Albrecht, James W., et al.
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Career interruption and subsequent earnings : A reexamination using Swedish data
- 1999
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Ingår i: Journal of Human Resources. ; 34, s. 294-311
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reexamines the link between career interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a rich new Swedish dataset, we are able to disaggregate time out of work into several components. Regressing log wages on aggregate total time out leads to the standar
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| 59. |
- Edin, Per-Anders, et al.
(författare)
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Swimming with the tide : solidarity wage policy and the gender earnings gap
- 1999
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women’s wages have varied over time and have had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage differentials have systematically worked against women, while the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender wage gap. Changes in the wage structure were particularly important between 1968 and 1974 when the reduction of overall wage inequality was dramatic. In 1981, however, the wage compression effect accounted only for a minor proportion of women's relative wage gains, as compared to 1974. At this time, women gained in relative wages mainly because discrimination was mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender wage gap. This small increase seems to have been driven by changed inter-industry wage differentials.
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- Edin, Per-Anders, et al.
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The Swedish youth labor market in boom and depression
- 1999
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Ingår i: Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries. - : University of Chicago Press.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor
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