Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures
Subtitle: quasi-experimental evidence
By: by Olof Aslund, Peter Fredriksson.
Contributors: Fredriksson, Peter
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1536; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1536
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Immigrants -- Sweden.; Public welfare -- Sweden.; Ethnicity -- Sweden.; Employment agencies -- Sweden.
Description: "We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts -- the number of individuals of the same ethnicity -- and the quality of contacts -- welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS regressions suggest that both these factors are positively related to individual welfare use. Instrumental variables estimations yield the conclusion that only the quality of contacts matter. An increase of the fraction of the ethnic group on welfare by 10 percent raises the individual probability of welfare use by almost 7 percent"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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