Peculiarly enough, the case of the Netherlands is at odds with this powerful evidence, as immigrants have hardly penetrated into today's construction industry, either as a wage laborer, or as an entrepreneur. The rise of immigrant enterprises in various other sectors—which can partly be attributed to their mobilization of co-ethnic networks—shows that a possible lack of co-ethnic ties per se does not account for the non-representation of immigrants in construction. While maintaining that social embeddedness contributes to the allocation of economic positions, this paper argues that it is especially a sector-specific configuration of economic and institutional processes that accounts for the current situation. As for the latter, the interference of the government in the construction industry as well as the role of institutional arrangements among companies and between companies and unions are considered to be particularly important.