eprintid: 14297
rev_number: 26
eprint_status: archive
userid: 600
dir: disk0/00/01/42/97
datestamp: 2009-03-25 14:42:27
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type: working_paper
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creators_name: Piil Damm, A.
title: Ethnic enclaves and immigrant labour market outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12040
abstract: This study investigates empirically how residence in ethnic enclaves affects labour
market outcomes of refugees. Self-selection into ethnic enclaves in terms of
unobservable characteristics is taken into account by exploitation of a Danish spatial
dispersal policy which randomly disperses new refugees across locations conditional
on six individual-specific characteristics.
The results show that refugees with unfavourable unobserved characteristics are
found to self-select into ethnic enclaves. Furthermore, taking account of negative
self-selection, a relative standard deviation increase in ethnic group size on average
increases the employment probability of refugees by 4 percentage points and
earnings by 21 percent. I argue that in case of heterogenous treatment effects, the
estimated effects are local average treatment effects.
date: 2006-08
publisher: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration
official_url: http://www.econ.ucl.ac.uk/cream/publicationsdiscussionpapers.htm
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series
number: 07/06
place_of_pub: London, UK
citation:        Piil Damm, A.;      (2006)    Ethnic enclaves and immigrant labour market outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence.                    (Discussion Paper Series  07/06). Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14297/1/14297.pdf