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

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … population with over 60 percent of immigrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative …

approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

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 …

separately for the majority population and "visible immigrants" and included several characteristics of the neighbourhood and of … education qualifications and various efforts to create jobs for young adults have a potential of decrease social assistance …

estimated multivariate models, we find that, for all four types of moves, age, education, household income, household …

's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …

location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …