Let’s stick together: Labor market effects from immigrant neighborhood clustering

Lobo, José; Mellander, Charlotta

doi:10.1177/0308518x19896521

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“…Human capital accumulated in the home country or elsewhere has limited value upon migration, moderated by the economic and cultural similarity between source and destination country. Moreover, since native contacts are important to access job information about local opportunities (Lobo and Mellander, 2020), segregation into ethnic enclaves also results in labour market penalties, limiting social mobility and restricting labour market access.…”

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“…In contrast to Norway, Sweden claims comparatively high levels of migration (Lobo and Mellander, 2020) and has long been viewed as a generous state extending citizenship, welfare and labour rights to migrants. A considerable body of research has therefore been conducted on migrant labour market access in Sweden (Vogiazides and Mondani, 2020).…”

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‘This isn’t forever for me’: Perceived employability and migrant gig work in Norway and Sweden

Newlands

2022

Environ Plan A

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Information asymmetry regarding local job prospects, imperfect portability of qualifications and a lack of host country language skills combine to reduce migrants’ perceptions of their own employability. As a result, platform mediated gig work has become a common labour market entry point for new migrants. However, there is a near-universal expectation among workers is that gig work will be undertaken short-term, rather than as the first step of a longer gig-career. While research has explored the individual and structural factors, there has been limited attention as to how the specific occupational context in which a worker is embedded can also shape workers’ perceived employability. In this article, I therefore present the results of 37 semi-structured interviews with migrant Foodora couriers across Norway and Sweden, exploring how the specific occupational context of gig work intersects with migrants’ perceived employability. This article identifies, firstly, that obtaining employment in gig work was not perceived to be a reflection of workers’ own local employability. Secondly, workers’ short-term temporal orientations shape how participants are able to cope with the physical, emotional and identity demands of gig work. Thirdly, workers have to re-frame their perceived employability in the face of what is perceived to be widespread discrimination in the local labour market context. Lastly, the specific occupational context of gig work was considered to be either of no value to future local employers, or a negative signal as to a worker’s skills and labour market integration.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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‘This isn’t forever for me’: Perceived employability and migrant gig work in Norway and Sweden

Newlands

2022

Environ Plan A

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“…Unlike other geographies for which socioeconomic data are typically collected by government agencies, neighborhood-level data are usually not collected 22 . The ubiquity and pervasiveness of neighborhood effects, also makes them difficult to parse out due to the presence of confounding factors operating at different spatial and social scales 15 , 23 , 24 .…”

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Evidence of COVID-19 fatalities in Swedish neighborhoods from a full population study

Wixe,

Lobo,

Mellander

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a debate about whether marginalized communities suffered the disproportionate brunt of the pandemic’s mortality. Empirical studies addressing this question typically suffer from statistical uncertainties and potential biases associated with uneven and incomplete reporting. We use geo-coded micro-level data for the entire population of Sweden to analyze how local neighborhood characteristics affect the likelihood of dying with COVID-19 at individual level, given the individual’s overall risk of death. We control for several individual and regional characteristics to compare the results in specific communities to overall death patterns in Sweden during 2020. When accounting for the probability to die of any cause, we find that individuals residing in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods were not more likely to die with COVID-19 than individuals residing elsewhere. Importantly, we do find that individuals show a generally higher probability of death in these neighborhoods. Nevertheless, ethnicity is an important explanatory factor for COVID-19 deaths for foreign-born individuals, especially from East Africa, who are more likely to pass away regardless of residential neighborhood.

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“…This study adopts a model used in research conducted by Lobo and Mellander (2020) which aims to identify the positive effects of economic factors on individuals living in specific ethnic neighborhoods. The region of focus in this research is East Java Province.…”

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Interregional Labor Migration and Its Role in Shaping Economic Growth: A Case Study of Casual Worker Migrants in Indonesia

Susilo,

Trisilia

2024

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Purpose: This study analyzed the determinants and impacts of casual migrant workers that was conducted in East Java, which is known as one of highest economic growth area in Indonesia and experiencing a higher influx of migrants compared to migrants leaving the region. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study employs the two-step heckman method. The sample consists of workers who engaged in interregional migration within East Java on 2015. The sample was selected based on characteristics that align with the research requirements, extracted from secondary data derived from the 2015 inter-census population survey. The data type used is cross-sectional data. Findings: The research findings indicate that significant determinants of casual migrant workers are migrants of non-productive age, male migrants, migrants with non-bachelor's/diploma, unmarried migrants, migrants without family under 5 years old, migrants originating from predominantly wooden/board/earthen floors, migrants from higher minimum wage regions than the destination, non-metropolitan city migrants, and migrants from areas with a lower poverty rate than destination region, which are more likely to move and become migrants. The results for the significant impact of casual migrant workers on the economic sector are influenced by casual migrant workers originating from non-metropolitan city regions, which contribute the most to the destination region's GRDP. Research, practical & social implications: This study formulates policy strategies that can be employed by government to enhance the quality of human resources and expand employment opportunities, particularly for casual migrant workers, as an endeavor to boost economic growth in the destination regions of migration.

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Let’s stick together: Labor market effects from immigrant neighborhood clustering

Cited by 7 publications

References 64 publications

‘This isn’t forever for me’: Perceived employability and migrant gig work in Norway and Sweden

‘This isn’t forever for me’: Perceived employability and migrant gig work in Norway and Sweden

Evidence of COVID-19 fatalities in Swedish neighborhoods from a full population study

Interregional Labor Migration and Its Role in Shaping Economic Growth: A Case Study of Casual Worker Migrants in Indonesia

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