The labor market integration of refugees to the United States : do entrepreneurs in the network help?
Olivier Dagnelie, Anna Maria Mayda, Jean-François Maystadt
We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees' labor-market integration by hiring them in their businesses. We analyze the universe of refugee cases without U.S. ties who were resettled in the United States between 2005 and 2010. We address threats to identification due to sorting of refugees into specific labor markets and to strategic placement by resettlement agencies. We find that the probability that refugees are employed 90 days after arrival is positively affected by the number of business owners in their network, but negatively affected by the number of those who are employees. This suggests that network members who are entrepreneurs hire refugees in their business, while network members working as employees compete with them, consistent with refugees complementing the former and substituting for the latter.
Year of publication: |
February 2018
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Authors: | Dagnelie, Olivier ; Mayda, Anna Maria ; Maystadt, Jean-François |
Publisher: |
Bonn, Germany : IZA |
Subject: | refugees | labor market integration | entrepreneurship | Migranten | Migrants | Arbeitsmarktintegration | Labour market integration | Migrantennetzwerk | Migrant network | Unternehmer | Entrepreneurs | Personalbeschaffung | Recruitment | USA | United States |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 48 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 11343 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/177147 [Handle] |
Classification: | F22 - International Migration ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798240