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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009

We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...

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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages

Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Labour market disadvantages of citizens with a migration background in Belgium : a systematic review

Devos, Louise; Lippens, Louis; Lens, Dries; Rycx, François - 2024

recommendations and literature gaps. The literature reveals that individuals with a migration background generally experience poorer …

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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland

Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van; Kauppinen, Timo M. - 2017

of residence. Based on multinomial logit modelling of migration outcomes, we found that an increase in income is …

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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born

Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...

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Ethnic mixing in early childhood: evidence from a randomized field experiment and a structural model

Boucher, Vincent; Tumen, Semih; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2021

We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that...

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Migrant networks and destination choice: evidence from moves across Turkish provinces

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021

This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India

Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...

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