This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the … United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants …

composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ workers from their home region and if self …-employed natives mainly employ native workers. We find that both natives and immigrants are more likely to employ co-nationals than to …-nationals. For immigrants we find that living in a municipality with a high share of co-nationals decreases the probability of …

importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … residential proximity. The evidence indicates that labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a …