We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of the foreign born and a positive one on employment...

I analyse the importance of national migration policy and labour market institutions for immigrants' labour market integration. Results indicate that the sending country structure of immigrants to a country, its ethnic diversity and its wage bargaining institutions as well as product market...