Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to …

This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse … behaviours and attitudes of migrants are diverging from or converging with those of natives. Chapter 2 examines the causes of … differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic …

migrants progressively displace lower-skill natives from specific sectors). The results, which survive causality checks …

Neighborhood racial and class segregation continue to be major social problems within America’s metropolitan areas …. Segregation has been linked to a whole host of racial and class inequalities, including access to jobs, schooling and single … parenthood, and future earnings. One factor accounting for segregation is the inability of black and lower income households to …

links segregation to adverse black birth outcomes but, to the best of our knowledge, no studies explore how this … relationship has changed over time. We explore the relationship between racial residential segregation on black and white birth … weights for the period 1970-2010. We find a negative effect of segregation on black birth outcomes that only emerges after …

Social segregation has profound impacts on socioeconomic outcomes. Using anonymized GPS records for Singapore which we …-derived data detect segregation by poverty, even with an imperfect proxy, and in the presence of targeted urban policies aimed at … social integration. The findings bode well for the use of GPS data in general to measure social segregation. …

Social segregation has profound impacts on socioeconomic outcomes. Using anonymized GPS records for Singapore which we …-derived data detect segregation by poverty, even with an imperfect proxy, and in the presence of targeted urban policies aimed at … social integration. The findings bode well for the use of GPS data in general to measure social segregation. …