Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures quasi-experimental evidence ; presented at CESifo Area Confrerence on Employment and Social Protection, May 2003

Literaturverz. S. 25 - 26

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Åslund, Olof (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fredriksson, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Munich Univ., Center for Economic Studies u.a. 2005
Schriftenreihe:CESifo working paper series Labour markets 1430
Schlagworte:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Literaturverz. S. 25 - 26
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.
Beschreibung:30 S
graph. Darst., Tab