Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …

population. The 2001 British Labour Force Survey indicates that the descendants of Britain's ethnic minority immigrants form an … ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain. We compare different ethnic minority groups born in Britain to … native born peers. Despite their strong educational achievements, we find that ethnic minority immigrants and their British …

population. The 2001 British Labour Force Survey indicates that the descendants of Britain's ethnic minority immigrants form an … ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain. We compare different ethnic minority groups born in Britain to … native born peers. Despite their strong educational achievements, we find that ethnic minority immigrants and their British …

Many immigrants in the Netherlands have poor Dutch language skills. They face problems in speaking and reading Dutch … wages. We find that for female immigrants language problems have significantly negative effects on hourly wages but not on … employment probability and hours of work. For male immigrants language problems do not affect employment probability, hours of …

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups … of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of … immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and …

paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of … immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit analysis. Pre-school enrollment is found to vary systematically with parental … characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother's labor supply and country of origin. Among …

show that immigrants from country-of-origin groups that have lower social costs to participation, as measured by past SSDI … participation rates for their origin group, are more sensitive to economic downturns than immigrants from high cost groups. We …

duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly …

that education and experience appear to have a strong effect on earnings in the long run and that an ethnic group can …

In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications affects their … information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 …