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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600920
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269711
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286651
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? Evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289989
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939170
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973726
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824259
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Gender differences in the effect of residential segregation on workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrants
Tammaru, Tiit; Strömgren, Magnus; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015
that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, but that residential segregation has … remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing integration of immigrants in … their host society and having a negative impact on people's lives. Segregation research often focuses on residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501876
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? : evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach /
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681272
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? : evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684076