Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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2000
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Per-Anders Edin;P. Fredriksson;Olof Åslund
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Per-Anders Edin;P. Fredriksson;Olof Åslund
最近的移民往往居住在大都市地区的族裔“飞地”。生活在这种飞地的经济后果仍然是一个尚未解决的问题。我们使用的移民政策倡议在瑞典，当政府当局分布在各地的方式，可能被认为是外源性的难民移民。这一政策举措提供了一个独特的自然实验，使我们能够估计生活在飞地对劳动力市场结果的因果影响。我们发现了大量的证据表明，在不同的地点进行分类。当考虑到分类时，居住在飞地改善了劳动力市场的结果;例如，与种族集中度标准差增加相关的收入增加约为4%至5%。
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way that may be considered exogenous. This policy initiative provides a unique natural experiment, which allows us to estimate the causal effect on labor market outcomes of living in enclaves. We find substantive evidence of sorting across locations. When sorting is taken into account, living in enclaves improves labor market outcomes; for instance, the earnings gain associated with a standard deviation increase in ethnic concentration is in the order of four to five percent.