Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35512 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4263
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to ensure that the results can be given a causal interpretation. The results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substantially lower shares of natives among their neighbors, coworkers and spouses as adults. The effects are mostly driven by higher exposure to immigrants of similar ethnic origin, in particular at the marriage market. We also find some effects on educational attainment, employment rates and wages, although these effects are much more limited in magnitude. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited. Inherited integration has a particularly strong impact on the marriage patterns of females.
Subjects: 
Immigration
integration
segregation
age at migration
siblings
JEL: 
J12
J15
J13
J01
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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