• DOI:10.1086/599336
Corpus ID: 17521852

Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

@article{Damm2009EthnicEA,
  title={Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence},
  author={Anna Piil Damm},
  journal={Journal of Labor Economics},
  year={2009},
  volume={27},
  pages={281-314}
}

Anna Piil Damm

Published 2009

Economics

Journal of Labor Economics

I examine the effects of the ethnic enclave size on labor market outcomes of immigrants. I account for ability sorting into enclaves by exploiting a Danish spatial dispersal policy under which refugees were randomly dispersed across locations. First, I find strong evidence that refugees with unfavorable unobserved characteristics self‐select into ethnic enclaves. Second, a relative standard deviation increase in the ethnic enclave size increases annual earnings by 18% on average, irrespective… CONTINUE READING

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