This paper reviews recent research in ten Western European countries on the educational
and labor market outcomes of second-generation minorities. Minorities from less-developed …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

Using data from the three rounds of the European Social Survey, this article investigates the
disparities in life satisfaction measures between the first-and second-generation immigrants …

This is the first study providing empirical support for automatically activated associations
inducing discriminatory behavior among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. Two different …

This document provides a first comparative overview of the presence and outcomes of the
children of immigrants in the labour markets of OECD countries, based on a collection of …

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical
areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education …

Part II of this paper examines the current for prospects for Scandinavian exceptionalism. It
argues that Finland, Norway and Sweden have all experienced, to a degree, declines in …

Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and
refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first …

By reviewing recent labour market research, this article presents strong arguments for the
existence of rather extensive ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Migrants …

This paper studies the effects of economic distress on support for radical right parties. Using
Swedish election data, I show that one layoff notice among low-skilled native-born workers …