Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin () and Peter Fredriksson

No 2730, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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 labour 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 labour market assimilation to one of income support.

Keywords: Immigration; Labour Market Outcomes; Settlement Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J18 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-03
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