Residential segregation and probability of being employed of recent immigrants in Montevideo 2011

Abstract

This study analyses the effect of neighborhood of residence on the probability of being employed for recent immigrants in Montevideo (arriving in 2005-2011), born in Peru, Paraguay and Chile. Social and economic features of the settlement area have an effect on the kind of integration: those immigrants with less social and economic capital tend to settle in poorer neighborhoods than those with capital that is more social. With the aim of elucidating the effect of neighborhood of residence on the employability of recent immigrants, this study answers the following question: For recent immigrants, does the probability of being employed vary with the concentration of the immigrant population in their neighborhood of residence and with their countries of birth? Based on the Population Census of Uruguay in 2011, multilevel logistic regression models were estimated, which allow us to analyze the overall effect of individual and structural features on the probability of being employed.