The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment

The data analysed in this study is subject to the following licenses/ restrictions: This article uses the factually anonymous data of the German IAB- SOEP Migration Sample, waves 1–3. The German IAB- SOEP Migration Sample is a representative longitudinal survey conducted jointly by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin. Data access was provided via a Scientific Use File supplied by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). https://doi.org/10.5684/soep.iab-soep-mig.2015. All documentation concerning the IAB- SOEP Migration Sample and including questionnaires and data manuals are made available by the FDZ (https://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Individual_Data/iab-soep-mig.aspx) and DIW (https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.552818.en/soep_iab_soep_mig_2015.html). Due to the German Data Protection legislation, we cannot make the original data from the IAB- SOEP Migration Sample or the dataset we generated available. Researchers can however apply for data access via the FDZ or DIW. Requests to access these datasets should be directed to https://fdz.iab.de/en/ FDZ_Individual_Data/iab-bamf-soep.aspx. The computer code for the analysis is available from the corresponding author upon the request.