This article analyses the relationship between the size and the quality of ethnic enclaves on immigrants’ labour market integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighbourhoods we find robust empirical evidence that the employment rate of the respective immigrant group in the vicinity (as a measure of enclave quality) facilitates labour market integration of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighbourhood tend to be positive, but less robust. We thus conclude that the quality is more important than the size of the ethnic enclave in helping new immigrants finding jobs.

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获得第一份工作：民族飞地的规模和质量以及难民劳动力市场的进入

本文分析了民族飞地规模与质量对移民劳动力市场融合的影响。使用外生定义的网格单元来描绘社区，我们发现了强有力的经验证据，表明附近各个移民群体的就业率（作为飞地质量的衡量标准）促进了新移民的劳动力市场整合。整体就业率和邻里共同国民比例的影响往往是积极的，但不那么强大。因此我们得出结论，在帮助新移民找到工作方面，质量比民族飞地的规模更重要。