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

By P. Edin, R. Lalonde, Olof Åslund. 2000

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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.

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The dynamics of immigrant welfare and labor market behavior (2009, unknown): “way. Edin et al. (2000) find that that return migration among refugees is low, less than 10% within 5 years since arrival, and if an immigrant is to leave Sweden, it is most likely to take place within the first few years after arrival.”
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey (2011, background): “Edin et al. (2000) found that 30%-40% of immigrants to Sweden left the country within ve years of arrival, and those who re-migrated were those who did not assimilate well into the Swedish labor market.”
Assimilation of Immigrants in Spain: A Longitudinal Analysis (2009, background): “Fernández and Ortega (2008) confirmed the results found in the foregoing paper using repeated cross-sections from the Labour Force Survey.”
The emigration of immigrants, return vs onward migration: evidence from Sweden (2006, background): “…Bratsberg 1996; Constant and Massey 2003; Constant and Zimmermann 2003; DaVanzo 1983; Devortex and Ituralde 2000; Dustmann 2000, 2003; Duleep 1994; Edin et al. 2000; Jasso and Rosenzweig 1982; Klinthäll 1998, 1999; Lindstrom and Massey 1994; Longva 2001; Pedersen et al. 2001; Ramos 1992; Røed…”
Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle: Differences between Immigrants and Natives (2009, unknown): “For Germany, we distinguish between three educational levels: Individuals who have no postsecondary education (low education); individuals who have post-secondary vocational 2 Current OECD member countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxe”
Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments Towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 Oecd-Countries (2000, unknown): “This can be traced back to a change in the country-of-origin composition from Nordic countries toward immigrants from non-OECD countries, where the latter are mostly refugees or relatives of refugees (Aguilar and Gustafsson, 1994; Edin et al., 2000).”
Selection in migration and return-migration: evidence from micro data (2005, background): “This is important because a considerable number of Finnish immigrants in Sweden tend to return to Finland within only a few years (Edin et al., 2000; Finnäs, 2003).”
Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-Experimental Evidence (2005, unknown): “The labor market success of refugee immigrants in Sweden has been rather poor during the 1990s; see Edin et al. (2000) .”