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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … among siblings arriving at different ages in order to ensure that the results can be given a causal interpretation. The … host country before child birth matters, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … among siblings arriving at different ages in order to ensure that the results can be given a causal interpretation. The …, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited. Inherited integration has a particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532679
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...
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concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
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differ. Results suggests that language acquisition is not a key mechanism through which age at immigration affects fertility …
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This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
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Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as improvements in day care provision for children....
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This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France … from 1968 to 1999 using census data. During this period, European and non-European immigrant segregation followed diverging … and highlights how public housing participation is related to contemporary segregation. At the macro-geographical level …
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