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In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...
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This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...
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Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults …
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ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from … level, workplace neighbourhood segregation is lower than residential neighbourhood segregation. Our micro-level analysis … further shows that high levels of residential exposure of immigrants to natives help to reduce ethnic segregation at the level …
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study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
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It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
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Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … neighbourhoods but is unable to do so will contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of segregation, especially in the … context of the debate on voluntary segregation versus segregation due to a lack of choice. We find that ethnic minority groups …
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measuring spatial dependence, particularly in the form of segregation or clusters. We conclude that there will be in the future …
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The selective inflow and outflow of residents by ethnicity is the main mechanism behind ethnic residential segregation …
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We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the … migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local level (the block) and include measures of house prices, commuting … specification, a 10 percentage points increase in residential segregation reduces the probability of being employed by 7 percentage …
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