Ethnic enclaves and the earnings of self-employed Latinos

Aguilera, Michael Bernabé

doi:10.1007/s11187-009-9206-6

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“…Ethnic enclaves provide many resources for immigrants including a larger and potentially cheaper labour force, ethnic solidarity, vertical integration and a protected market (Aguilera 2009). An ethnic enclave provides a market, and it reduces the barriers to employment by establishing businesses for and by immigrants.…”

Section: Ethnic Concentrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach

Wang

Maani

2014

IZA J Migration

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Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. "Ethnic capital" (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or language as proxy for immigrants' network in host country. In this paper we introduce a new "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a dynamic network variable from micro-data to capture the effects of social and resource networks for immigrants. This approach allows each individual's self-employment decision to be geographically and ethnically correlated with that of other individuals. We further show that there are three advantages of this approach: it captures a more accurate effect of networks; it provides a better estimation of the impact of other socio-economic variables on self-employment; and it provides a better data fit. The empirical findings of this study strongly suggest that ethnic capital plays a vital role in relation to immigrants' self-employment decisions.JEL classification codes: J23, J61, Z13

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Section: Ethnic Concentrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach

Wang

Maani

2014

IZA J Migration

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“…These migrant networks can shape social capital accumulation because newly arriving migrants have a greater tendency to interact with other Mexicans for social support. Social capital is important for Mexicans to develop instrumental support (Lovejoy & Handy, 2011), find a job (Aguilera, 2009), and earn higher wages (Amuedo-Dorantes & Mundra, 2007;Granberry & Marcelli, 2011).…”

Section: Mexican Enclaves and The Social Network They Generatementioning

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More social than capital: Social capital accumulation through social network exchange among legal and unauthorized Mexican migrants

Granberry

2014

The Social Science Journal

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a b s t r a c tSocial capital is frequently used to explain many policy related outcomes, but research has not adequately explained how it is accumulated. It is unclear whether the economic or social characteristics of others in a social network motivate social capital accumulation. This lack of understanding has called some to question social capital's efficacy. Employing data from a survey of randomly selected foreign-born Mexicans in Los Angeles County, the influence of social and economic characteristics of a migrant's social network members are estimated. Results suggest a negative association with social capital accumulation for Mexican migrants with a social network member outside their neighborhood. Having married social network members is positively associated for legal Mexicans, while having network members who work in occupations requiring more social skills is positively associated for unauthorized Mexicans accumulating social capital. Measures of human and financial capital are not associated with the probability of developing social capital.

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“…The immigrant market is described as a "protected market," due to immigrants' demand for ethnic-specific goods and services [8], [13]. This demand increases with the size of the ethnic group in a specific area.…”

Section: Self-employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, with a larger ethnic enclave, more business opportunities can be generated for immigrant entrepreneurs [8]. Co-settlement in ethnic enclaves also provides other resources for immigrant businesses, including a larger and potentially cheaper labor force, and potential assistance with management by experienced members of the ethnic enclave [8], [13].…”

Section: Self-employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic networks and location choice of immigrants

Maani¹

2016

izawol

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Ethnic enclaves and the earnings of self-employed Latinos

Abstract: Cuban immigrant, Earnings, Ethnic enclaves, Mexican immigrant, Self-employment, L26,

Cited by 60 publications

References 33 publications

Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach

Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach

More social than capital: Social capital accumulation through social network exchange among legal and unauthorized Mexican migrants

Ethnic networks and location choice of immigrants

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