Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation

Magnus Strömgren (), Tiit Tammaru (), Maarten van Ham, Szymon Marcinczak (), Olof Stjernström () and Urban Lindgren ()
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Magnus Strömgren: Umeå University
Tiit Tammaru: University of Tartu
Szymon Marcinczak: Umeå University
Olof Stjernström: Umeå University
Urban Lindgren: Umeå University

No 5622, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of daily interethnic contact. The key innovation of this paper is to clarify the role of immigrants' pre-hire exposure to natives in the residence, workplace and family domains in immigrant exposure to natives in their current workplace. The study is based on Swedish population register data. The results show that at the macro level, workplace neighbourhood segregation is lower than residential neighbourhood segregation. Our micro-level analysis further shows that high levels of residential exposure of immigrants to natives help to reduce ethnic segregation at the level of workplace establishments as well.

Keywords: longitudinal analysis; neighbourhood effects; residential segregation; workplace segregation; intermarriage; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2011-04
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Published - published as 'Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants' in: Demography , 2014, 51(2), 645-671

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