Maire Carroline Magante (p), Davide Luca

Paola Proietti

There is significant evidence of a general link between migrants’ residential segregation and their socioeconomic outcomes. Yet, in spite of growing agreement on how the integration of migrants into host societies starts at local level, few studies have been conducted at a micro-scale to assess the extent to which migrants’ spatial concentration is linked to economic inequalities and poverty in Europe. In this paper we aim to contribute filling this gap. We exploit novel data at high spatial resolution across five Dutch cities to test whether neighborhoods with a higher concentration of migrants show higher income inequality levels and higher poverty compared to areas mostly inhabited by natives. Results show that the levels of income inequality are similar across both areas. In the case of migrants, however, levels are highly heterogeneous across ethnic groups. Furthermore, migrants’ ‘hotspots’ tend to show higher levels of poverty.

Özge Öner (p)

Davide Luca

We investigate the effect of social ties in place of residence on an immigrant’s labor market entry. In order to do that, we ask the following questions. What are the neighborhood factor that influence the probability that an immigrant finds a job? If he finds a job, what are the factors influencing where this job is located? First, we run logit models to estimate probabilities of finding a job. Then, in a second step, using conditional logit models, we estimate the probability of an immigrant finding a job where an ethnic peer from residential neighborhood already has a job. Such effect is isolated from individual sorting, general enclave characteristics of the residential neighborhood, as well as the work neighborhood, and the centrality of locations with respect to distance to central business district. We use full population geo-coded data for 1992-2013 to study two groups of immigrants. We use two distinct waves of immigration to identify our sub-populations. The first one is the large wave of immigrants originating from the former Yugoslavia following the civil wars in the Balkans in the beginning and mid-1990s. The second wave is the immigration from Iraq peaking around 2006 following the second Gulf war.
Our results suggest that the size of the own ethnic group is important over and above general ethnic enclave effects. Employment rates of the own ethnic group is important for the probability of finding a job while the overall employment rate is not. The location of the new job is dictated by the location at which ethnic peers from the residential neighborhood are employed the period before.

Michiel N. Daams , Paola Proietti (p), Paolo Veneri

Özge Öner

Please, see extended abstract Daams, Proietti, Veneri