Journal of International Migration and Integration
Volume 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 687-706

Are Residential and Workplace Concentration Correlated for Immigrants? Evidence for Sweden (Article)

Pendakur K.* , Pendakur R. , Bevelander P.
  • a Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
  • b Department of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  • c Malmö Institute of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

Abstract

In immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are often concentrated in residential neighbourhoods with high concentrations of immigrants. In addition, they are concentrated in workplaces with high concentrations of immigrants. Many researchers have assumed that these are two sides of the same coin, so that policy affecting residential segregation could be expected to influence workplace segregation. Using Swedish register data for 2007, we directly assess whether immigrants who live in residential neighbourhoods concentrated with immigrants also work in firms concentrated with immigrants. We find that there is very little correlation between residential and workplace segregation, suggesting that policy could profitably target both types of segregation separately. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Author Keywords

Enclaves segregation Immigration

Index Keywords

social segregation racial segregation immigrant immigration neighborhood enclave Sweden workplace
Link
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DOI: 10.1007/s12134-015-0430-4
ISSN: 14883473
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English