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.
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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.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ethnic enclaves and immigrant labour market outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.econ.ucl.ac.uk/cream/publicationsdiscus... |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14297 |
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