the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …

the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when … using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to … economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany. We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by …

specially developed written questionnaire on the reasons for their international move. In the years 2002 to 2005, 228 immigrants … questionnaire to 52 of these immigrants. On this basis 23 interviews were ultimately carried out. Limited selectivity problems were …