Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177147 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11343
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees' labor-market integration by hiring them in their businesses. 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 sorting of refugees 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 in their business, while network members working as employees compete with them, consistent with refugees complementing the former and substituting for the latter.
Subjects: 
refugees
labor market integration
entrepreneurship
JEL: 
F22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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