Childhood and Family Experiences and the Social Integration of Young Migrants

Olof Åslund, Anders Böhlmark and Oskar Skans

No 2012003, Norface Discussion Paper Series from Norface Research Programme on Migration, Department of Economics, University College London

Abstract: We use sibling variation in age at migration to study how early life exposure to the host country affects social integration in adulthood. Building on a Swedish population-wide dataset, we show that early experiences affect the probability of living close to, working with, and marrying other immigrants. Segregation also decreases with parental time in the host country before the subject’s birth. The effects are permanent and do not arise through differences in education or economic outcomes. Several results instead suggest that social integration is heavily affected by preferences or cultural identities that are set during early, formative, years.

Keywords: Immigration; integration; childhood experiences; age at migration; siblings. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J12 J13 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01
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