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Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden
Immigrant integration is key to realizing the potential of international migration in economic development. However, integration is often thought to be hampered by immigrants' limited social networks…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/30/2022
Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study
We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/11/2021
Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets – The impact of ghe COVID 19-pandemic
Per Skedinger, IFN, is one of the authors of a new report commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers/ Nordregio.
News
Publish date 10/20/2021
Ethnic Enclaves and Self-Employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden: Ethnic Capital or Enclave Size?
We employ geocoded data to explore the effects of ethnic enclaves in Swedish cities on the propensity of Middle Eastern immigrants to transcend from having no employment to self-employment. We demonst…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/30/2021
Borde vi ha fler enkla jobb?
Den låga andelen enkla jobb i Sverige beror inte på bristande efterfrågan från arbetsgivare, utan på att höga lönenivåer till stor del ”prisat ut” dem från marknaden. De relativt höga lönerna i dessa…
Report
Publish date 6/22/2022
Water Conservation and the Common Pool Problem: Can Pricing Address Free-Riding in Residential Hot Water Consumption?
Water is an increasingly scarce resource. It is often distributed such that consumers do not face any marginal cost of consumption, creating a common pool problem. For instance, tenants in multi-famil…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/6/2021
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/22/2022
Graduate Student
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Work and Productivity: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity
We propose a model with asymmetric firms where new technologies displace workers. We show that both leading (low-cost) firms and laggard (high-cost) firms increase productivity when automating but tha…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/11/2021
Vad bestämmer äldres digitala vårdkontakter?
I vilken omfattning kontaktar äldre individer vården digitalt? Skiljer det sig mellan olika grupper, och framför allt, hur ser bilden ut för utrikes födda? Idag vet vi inte särskilt mycket om detta, m…
Article in Swedish
Publish date 6/8/2021
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/17/2022
IFN Researcher