Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191750 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1019
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
With the arrival of over one million asylum seekers in Germany in 2015, policy discussions opened whether refugees should be spread across the country or spatially concentrated in order to facilitate their integration in society. When an immigrant locates in a residential area with many natives or many foreigners he has access to different respective social networks which are important for the labor market performance. This paper uses the SOEP dataset to estimate which residential location decision via the networks leads to a better labor market performance. Findings show that residential concentration of immigration increases wages of new immigrants, but also raises their unemployment. Native wages are suppressed in an area with many foreigners.
Subjects: 
migration
residential segregation
labor market
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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