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Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes: QuasiExperimental Evidence. Working Paper (2006)
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@MISC{Damm06ethnicenclaves,
author = {Anna Piil Damm and Outcomes Quasi-experimental Evidence and Anna Piil Damm},
title = {Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes: QuasiExperimental Evidence. Working Paper},
year = {2006}
}
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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 characteris-tics 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 proba-bility of refugees by 4 percentage points and earnings by 21 percent. I argue that in case of heterogeneous treatment effects, the estimated effects are local average treatment effects.
Keyphrases
ethnic enclave quasiexperimental evidence immigrant labour market outcome unobservable characteris-tics employment proba-bility ethnic group size percentage point danish spatial dispersal policy new refugee relative standard deviation increase unfavourable unobserved characteristic heterogeneous treatment effect labour market outcome negative self-selection individual-specific characteristic local average treatment effect
