Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Characteristics for in-sample refugee neighbourhoods in 2008

From: Labour market integration of refugees and the importance of the neighbourhood: Norwegian quasi-experimental evidence

	With settlement		Total
	Mean	SD	Mean	Diff.
LFP rate (16–74 years), %	81.38	6.02	81.33	− 0.04
Non-western residents, %	8.98	9.48	5.01	− 3.97***
Higher education, %	30.66	12.85	26.17	− 4.49***
SA-recipients (18–59 years), %	4.89	4.55	3.71	− 1.18***
Avg. wage inc. (16–74 years), t.NOK	318.01	57.36	309.19	− 8.82***
Avg. population	639.01	492.24	339.02	− 299.98***
Observations	3209		13,820

See Appendix Table 10 for an extended version. * \(p<0.1\), ** \(p<0.05\), *** \(p<0.01\)

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