Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state … Internet reduces social capital. For some measures including children's social activities, we even find significant positive …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a … depends strongly on local labor market conditions, with strong impacts in regions with high unemployment. Similarly, we find …

-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring … immigrants' children substantially. This disparity is largest when conditioning on the language spoken at home, and prevails even …