@article{1266e1d9bbe6493e82c3c237da59a1e7,
title = "Do as the Neighbors Do: Examining the Effect of Residential Neighborhoods on Labor Market Outcomes",
abstract = "This paper examines the effect of where immigrants live on their labor market outcomes. We provide robust evidence that both the number and the labor market activity of immigrants{\textquoteright} neighbors affect their employment. In particular, we demonstrate that immigrants are much more likely to be employed in the same firm as their geographic neighbors than are other immigrants.",
keywords = "Employment networks, Linked employer-employee data, Residential networks",
author = "Fredrik Andersson and Simon Burgess and Julia Lane",
note = "Funding Information: We greatly appreciate thoughtful comments from Iwan Barankay, Helen Simpson, seminar participants at the University of Bristol and the Society of Labor Economists. This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant SES-9978093 and SES-0427889, the National Institute on Aging Grant R01-AG18854, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. All data used in this paper are confidential. The U.S. Census Bureau supports external researchers{\textquoteright} use of some of these data through the Research Data Center network (www.census.gov/ces). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York (outside the USA).",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1007/s12122-014-9188-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "373--392",
journal = "Journal of Labor Research",
issn = "0195-3613",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "4",
}