Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees

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In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality immigrants first arrive into, effects the probability of self-employment positively, while the share of all other coethnics has a negative effect. Results however also indicate that there is a long term economic penalty to being placed with a larger share of self-employed coethnics, an effect which is partly mediated through the choice of selfemployment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2018:7

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; New Firms; Startups ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: Immigration ; Self-employment ; Sweden ; Foreign born ; Ethnic Enclaves ; Coethnics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Andersson, Henrik
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Uppsala University, Department of Economics
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/197659
• URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-347043
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET