Does living in an area characterized by high concentrations of residents of the same country-of-origin deprive ethnic minority groups, or does potential access to an extended country-of-origin-specific network stimulate their integration? This paper takes a new approach to analysing the potential of country-of-origin-specific economic capital in neighbourhoods to increase employment opportunities. We add to the ‘ethnic enclave’ debate by measuring country-of-origin-specific economic capital as the rate of employed co-countrymen, while controlling for the presence of co-countrymen and general employment rates in the neighbourhood. Whereas many studies employ aggregated data to estimate the impact of neighbourhood, here we use individualized, scalable neighbourhoods. This allows for a flexible approach in studying the impact of country-of-origin-specific economic capital in neighbourhoods. We employ individual longitudinal Swedish registry data for 2000–2010 on working-age individuals of Iraqi, Iranian, Turkish, and Somalian backgrounds in Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö. We find that an increased share of employed co-countrymen positively influences individual employment prospects. We add to existing knowledge by showing that the impact of minority clustering on employment outcomes is conditional on the quality of local networks – i.e., country-of-origin-specific economic capital – and on the scale of measurement.

居住在原籍国居民高度集中的地区会剥夺少数族裔群体，还是潜在地使用扩展的原籍国特定网络会刺激他们的融合？本文采用一种新的方法来分析原籍国特定的经济资本在社区中增加就业机会的潜力。我们通过测量起源国特定的经济资本作为受雇率来增加“民族飞地”的辩论同事，同时控制邻居的存在和附近地区的一般就业率。尽管许多研究使用汇总数据来估计社区的影响，但在这里我们使用个性化的可扩展社区。这为研究起源国特定的经济资本在邻里的影响提供了一种灵活的方法。我们采用了2000–2010年瑞典纵向个人登记数据，这些数据涉及斯德哥尔摩，哥德堡和马尔默的伊拉克，伊朗，土耳其和索马里背景的工作年龄个人。我们发现，从业人员比例增加同国家对个人就业前景产生积极影响。通过显示少数群体对就业结果的影响，我们会增加现有知识，这取决于当地网络的质量（即起源国特定的经济资本）以及衡量规模。