Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success / Michele Battisti, Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battisti, Michele.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Peri, Giovanni.

Romiti, Agnese.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22389.

NBER working paper series no. w22389

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes. we also look at those who were assigned to an initial location independently of their choice allows a causal interpretation of our estimates. We find that immigrants initially located in places with larger co-ethnic networks are more likely to be employed at first, but have a lower probability of investing in human capital.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2016.