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TY - JOUR
T1 - The labor market integration of refugees in the United States
T2 - do entrepreneurs in the network help?
AU - Dagnelie, Olivier
AU - Maystadt, Jean-Francois
AU - Mayda, Anna Maria
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in European Economic Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in European Economic Review, 111, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.10.001
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees – from the same country of origin – help refugees enter the labor market by hiring them. 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 refugees sorting 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, while network members working as employees compete with them, which is consistentwith refugees complementing the former and substituting for the latter.
AB - We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees – from the same country of origin – help refugees enter the labor market by hiring them. 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 refugees sorting 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, while network members working as employees compete with them, which is consistentwith refugees complementing the former and substituting for the latter.
KW - Refugees
KW - Labor market integrationEntrepreneurship
KW - Entrepreneurship
U2 - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.10.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 111
SP - 257
EP - 272
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
SN - 0014-2921
M1 - 111
ER -