The effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish case
The purpose of this essay is to study what impact immigration has on the Swedish income distribution for the period 1992-2005. This essay uses a two-folded approach to study the income distribution, first, an income inequality measure will be investigated in order to find if the inequality increases...
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ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-lnu-858452019-06-25T22:03:57ZThe effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish caseengUng, KevinOlsson, IsabelaLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)2019income inequalitydisposable incomeimmigrationSwedenquantile regressionEconomicsNationalekonomiThe purpose of this essay is to study what impact immigration has on the Swedish income distribution for the period 1992-2005. This essay uses a two-folded approach to study the income distribution, first, an income inequality measure will be investigated in order to find if the inequality increases or decreases by the increased immigration. Secondly, we estimate a quantile regression for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles for the period 1992, 1995, 2000 and2005, together with an OLS regression in order to find the income gap between the immigrants and natives, which is analysed for males and females separately. The study found that the inflow of immigrants increased income inequality in the lower tail of the income distribution. Immigrants at the upper tail of the income distribution are doing relatively better than the immigrants in the lower tail of the income distribution. Conclusively, independently of gender, the income gap between immigrants and natives is almost three times as large in the lower tail of the income distribution relative to the upper tail of the income distribution. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85845application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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The purpose of this essay is to study what impact immigration has on the Swedish income distribution for the period 1992-2005. This essay uses a two-folded approach to study the income distribution, first, an income inequality measure will be investigated in order to find if the inequality increases or decreases by the increased immigration. Secondly, we estimate a quantile regression for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles for the period 1992, 1995, 2000 and2005, together with an OLS regression in order to find the income gap between the immigrants and natives, which is analysed for males and females separately. The study found that the inflow of immigrants increased income inequality in the lower tail of the income distribution. Immigrants at the upper tail of the income distribution are doing relatively better than the immigrants in the lower tail of the income distribution. Conclusively, independently of gender, the income gap between immigrants and natives is almost three times as large in the lower tail of the income distribution relative to the upper tail of the income distribution. |
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Ung, Kevin Olsson, Isabela |
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Ung, Kevin Olsson, Isabela |
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Ung, Kevin |
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The effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish case |
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The effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish case |
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The effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish case |
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The effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish case |
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The effects of immigration on income distribution: The Swedish case |
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effects of immigration on income distribution: the swedish case |
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Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS) |
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