Erschienen in:
Review of Regional Studies, 30 (2000) 2
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.52324/001c.8624
ISSN:
1553-0892;
0048-749X
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Beschreibung:
Foreign-born residents constitute approximately 11 percent of the Swedish population. This level has been reached after steady immigration dur-ing the postwar years and has been accompanied in recent decades with pro-portionately more non-European immigrants. This paper examines how these foreign born differ from native Swedes in internal migration behavior using a unique, geographically descriptive micro database. It finds that they differ, in part, because of the role that the size of foreign-born communities plays in both the decision to migrate and choice of destination. The implications of these results for public policy, regional economic growth, and regional economic-demographic modeling are discussed.