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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rauhut, Daniel
• Johansson, Mats

Titel

The Regional Settlement Patterns of Immigrants to Sweden 1967-2005

Ist Teil von

• Finnish yearbook of population research, 2011-01, Vol.46, p.115-135

Ort / Verlag

Population Research Institute of Väestöliitto

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of this study is to analyse the initial allocation of immigrants to Sweden 1967-2005 by age in a regional perspective. Vacancies, unemployment and labour market participation as well as geographical areas with many previous immigrants are included in the analysis as pull-factors. A multivariate cross-section OLS regression model will be used to estimate the relative initial regional distribution of immigrants in Sweden in 1967, 1975, 1990 and 2005 by age. The chosen method enables to control for a subset of explanatory variables and examine the effect of a selected independent variable when estimating the regional pull-factors to immigration. This study uses data collected from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and the National Labour Market Board (AMS). The data used is regional macro data, which does not contain information on single individuals.The overall conclusion is that previous immigrants had an impact on age groups in their initial regional settlement pattern in 1967 - 2005. Few of the other independent variables show any coefficients which are statistically separated from zero.