Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden

Per-Anders Edin, Robert LaLonde and Olof Åslund

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Abstract: Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. Further, within these two groups, it is the least economically successful who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones.

Keywords: IMMIGRANTS; MIGRATION; ECONOMICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2000
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