Refugees’ Transition from Welfare to Work: A Quasi-Experimental Approach of the Impact of the Neighbourhood Context

Abstract This study analyses the impact of neighbourhood context on likelihood that refugees move from social assistance to paid employment. It makes use Dutch policy resulted in an exogenous placement their first regular housing. natural quasi-experiment allows us estimate intent-to-treat effects initial characteristics transitioning welfare work. We consider employment share and median level income among natives co-ethnics, using longitudinal administrative data discrete time event-history modelling. Our findings indicate are more likely enter labour market when neighbourhood’s is higher. A similar effect for co-ethnics not found. There also no evidence area with a higher or facilitates transition