Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures - quasi-experimental evidence presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2003
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contactsthe number of individuals of the same ethnicityand the quality of contacts welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS regres...
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Munich
CES
2005
Munich Ifo |
| Schriftenreihe: | CESifo working papers
No. 1430 : Category 4, Labour markets |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contactsthe number of individuals of the same ethnicityand 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | 30 S. graph. Darst. 21 cm |