%0 Report
        %A Stips, Felix
%A Kis-Katos, Krisztina
        %T Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12903
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12903
        %X 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.
        %K dispersal policies
%K Germany
%K employment
%K refugees
%K social networks