@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12903,
            	author={Stips, Felix and Kis-Katos, Krisztina},
            	title={Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany},
            	year={2020},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={12903},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12903},
	abstract={Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of asylum seekers. While the individual employment probability is not linked to network size, it increases with the number of employed local co-national asylum seekers and decreases with the number of non-employed network members, thereby underlining the central importance of network quality.},
	keywords={dispersal policies;Germany;employment;refugees;social networks},
            }