News at Uppsala Immigration Lab
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Multidisciplinary Conference on Migration and Integration
In September, Uppsala Immigraiton Lab will co-organize a multidisciplinary conference on migration and integration with the Department on Women's and Children's Health, in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council and the Center on Global Migraiton, University of Gothenburg.
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UIL researchers in Ekonomisk Debatt
The UIL researchers Linna Marten and Akib Khan have written articles in the latest issue of Ekonomisk Debatt.
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VoxUkraine: Where do Ukrainians want to go?
Since the beginning of the full-scale war one year ago, eight million Ukrainians have left the country. But how many Ukrainians want to leave the country permanently? And to which destination countries? The researchers Olle Hammar, Oscar Erixson and Mikael Elinder explore these questions in an article in VoxUkraine.
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Lillit Ottosson defends her thesis "From Welfare to Work: Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs"
Lillit Ottosson defended her thesis "From Welfare to Work: Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs" on Friday 9 September at Ekonomikum.
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First research meeting within Forte-funded program
Exactly one month after the outbreak of war in Ukraine and in the middle of one of Europe's largest migration flows in the post-war period, the first major research meeting took place in a new Forte-funded research program within Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL).
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New report: How many will flee from Ukraine and which EU countries will they go to?
12 million Ukrainians are assumed to seek protection in an EU country and 2.5 percent of them, or 300,000, will seek refuge in Sweden. This is a much higher forecast than what the Swedish Migration Agency has predicted. These are the results from a new study and a report in collaboration with Delmi.
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Economic effects of mass migration
New research from Uppsala Immigration Lab examines the economic effects of mass migration from Sweden to the United States 1867-1914 on the origin areas left by the migrants.
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UIL receives funding from Forte
UIL receives almost 18 million SEK from Forte for the research program "Understanding and advancing labor market integration in transitional times".
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UIL researchers receive funding from Handelsbanken
UIL's researchers have received funding from Handelsbanken for the project Can close contact with natives promote immigrants' social and economic integration? Large-scale experimental evidence from an NGO-led program in Sweden.
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Olle Hammar defends his thesis The Mystery of Inequality: Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
Olle Hammar defended his thesis The Mystery of Inequality: Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions, 4 June, at Ekonomikum. After his defence, Olle will begin as a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS) and as a postdoc at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
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Sébastien Willis joins Uppsala Immigration Lab
Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL) is happy to announce that Sébastien Willis, who recently defended his thesis at Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, will join as a postdoc on June 1, 2021.
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Researchers get 3 million grant from Formas
Linna Martén, Henrik Andersson and Kristoffer Jutvik get allmost 3 million SEK from Formas for the project Who gets asylum? The impact of traits and biases on bureaucrats' decision making. The three-year project will study bureaucrats' decision making in the asylum process.
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New publication: Ethnic Enclaves, Self-employment, and the Economic Performance of Refugees: Evidence from a Swedish Dispersal Policy
The article in International Migration Review estimates the causal effect of residential concentration of co-ethnics (ethnic enclaves) on the probability to start a business among refugees in Sweden. The author behind the article is Uppsala Immigration Lab's researcher Henrik Andersson.
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New publication: Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies
A new article in Journal of Public Economics by researchers at Uppsala Immigration Lab, provide evidence for the existence of spillover effects of national immigration policies. The researchers have estimated the effect of stricter family reunification rules in Denmark on migration behavior.
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Olof Åslund with new working paper for IZA
This paper studies the relationship between past immigration experiences of the host country and the way new immigrants enter the labor market.
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Hans Grönqvist with new report about the performance gap between native and foreign-born pupils
Foreign-born pupils do not perform as well in school as native pupils. In Sweden, the observed differences between these two groups have increased during the last 30 years. The effect is most pronounced for pupils who arrive in Sweden when they are older than 7 years. The observed differences decrease when controlling for socioeconomic status. The results are shown within a new SNS report written by Hans Grönqvist and Susan Niknami.