Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197659 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2018:7
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality immigrants first arrive into, effects the probability of self-employment positively, while the share of all other coethnics has a negative effect. Results however also indicate that there is a long term economic penalty to being placed with a larger share of self-employed coethnics, an effect which is partly mediated through the choice of selfemployment.
Subjects: 
Immigration
Self-employment
Sweden
Foreign born
Ethnic Enclaves
Coethnics
JEL: 
C21
J15
M13
R23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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