abstract: 'Unlike the situation in other immigrant-receiving countries, the impact

  of co-ethnic neighbourhoods on immigrants'' life outcomes has been

  understudied in Australia. In addition, because of reliance on

  cross-sectional and sample survey data, existing Australian studies have

  not taken advantage of recent methodological progress that addresses

  selection bias. In that context, this paper estimates the impact of the

  size of co-ethnic neighbourhoods on labour force participation,

  employment, hours worked and income of immigrants using microdata from

  the 2006-16 Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset that spans three

  censuses. Drawing on this unique dataset, the paper applies a series of

  OLS regression models that address issues of individual and location

  sorting by applying individual-fixed effects, controlling for

  residential mobility, duration of residence and using an exogenous

  measure of co-ethnic neighbourhood size. We find a small significant

  negative effect on labour participation and wage, particularly for the

  non-tertiary educated and immigrants with low English proficiency.

  However, when we control for residential mobility, residence in

  co-ethnic neighbourhoods is no longer statistically significant, which

  highlights the importance of stringent methodological choices that

  control for settlement trajectories, while revealing that movement

  toward smaller co-ethnic neighbourhoods is associated with increased

  labour force participation. Our findings suggest that efforts by the

  Australian government to settle immigrants in regional areas with a

  limited migrant population should not affect the labour market outcomes

  of immigrants given that ethnic enclaves do not facilitate labour market

  integration in Australia.'
affiliation: 'Bernard, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

  Nguyen, Toan, Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, Australia.

  Bernard, Aude; Lee, Rennie, Univ Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

  Wilson, Tom, Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

  Argent, Neil, Univ New England, Armidale, Australia.'
author: Nguyen, Toan and Bernard, Aude and Lee, Rennie and Wilson, Tom and Argent,
  Neil
author-email: a.bernard@uq.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Nguyen
  given: Toan
- family: Bernard
  given: Aude
- family: Lee
  given: Rennie
- family: Wilson
  given: Tom
- family: Argent
  given: Neil
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s12061-023-09505-2
earlyaccessdate: JAN 2023
eissn: 1874-4621
files: []
issn: 1874-463X
journal: APPLIED SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND POLICY
keywords: 'Longitudinal Census; Co-Ethnic Networks; Residential Segregation;

  Internal migration'
keywords-plus: 'RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION; EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT; UNITED-STATES;

  ENCLAVES; MIGRATION; COMMUNITIES; PLACEMENT; NETWORKS; EARNINGS; IMPACTS'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '55'
pages: 831-850
papis_id: ca3898bc9938c5ab9cce6df18c39ea65
ref: Nguyen2023docoethnic
times-cited: '0'
title: Do Co-Ethnic Neighbourhoods Affect the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants?
  Longitudinal Evidence from Australia
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000921780600001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '16'
web-of-science-categories: Environmental Studies; Geography; Regional \& Urban Planning
year: '2023'