Sökning: "income assimilation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden income assimilation.
1. The Immigrant Experience: Changing Employment and Income Patterns in Sweden, 1970 - 1993
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the changing patterns of employment and income assimilation among male immigrants to Sweden. In brief, the results of this work are that immigrants have been facing an increasingly difficult time integrating into the Swedish economy. LÄS MER
2. Essays on the Political Economy of Development
Sammanfattning : Structural Change and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the Finnish War ReparationsThis paper presents evidence that government industrial policy can promote new industries, move labor out of agriculture into manufacturing, and have long-term effects via increased human capital accumulation and upward mobility. I use plausibly exogenous variation generated by the Finnish war reparations (1944-1952) that forced the largely agrarian Finland to give 5% of its yearly GDP to the Soviet Union in the form of industrial products. LÄS MER
3. Making a living in a new country
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of six self-contained essays focusing on immigrants' maintenance in Sweden. These six essays study immigrants' incomes from different sources. The first three focus on immigrants' incomes from work and on their position in the Swedish public transfer system. LÄS MER
4. Immigrant Careers - Why Country of Origin Matters
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the labor market outcomes of a population of natives and immigrants in Sweden from 1968 and until 2001. Previous research has consistently pointed to the importance of an individual’s country of origin, without being able to fully explain why this is the case. LÄS MER
5. The Mystery of Inequality : Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
Sammanfattning : Essay I (with Daniel Waldenström): We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups by constructing a new database that covers 68 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2018. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has fallen, primarily during the 2000s and 2010s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped by 15 points and the earnings share of the world’s poorest half doubled. LÄS MER