immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language …Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the … jobs and economic success in the new country. These payoffs are lessened if immigrants choose to live and work in ethnic …

separate literature has also examined the cultural and ethnic identity of immigrants and how these affect their economic …. Therefore this paper examines the role of ethnic geographic clustering in the sociocultural integration of immigrants. It … from the unexploited German full census of 1970 and 1987. We employ the exogenous placement of immigrants during their …

remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing integration of immigrants in … paper examines the role of residential segregation in workplace segregation among recently arrived immigrants. By using … that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, but that residential segregation has …

This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for nonwestern migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation nonwestern migrants. On the other hand, the …

Latino teenagers, although it is smaller for foreign- than native-born Latinos. Adult Latino immigrants’ earnings are less … affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among … Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic whites and blacks. We focus on adults who have not finished high …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … clustered by population share of visible immigrants in proportion to share of native born residents. The target variable under …

This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where … they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly …). The shift away from the east coast metropolitan areas to California reflects the change in the origins of immigrants from …

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …