immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language …Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the … jobs and economic success in the new country. These payoffs are lessened if immigrants choose to live and work in ethnic …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …

This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using … substantial ethnic segregation across both workplaces and residential locations and that the extent of segregation has been … relatively stable over the last 30 years. Workplace segregation is particularly pronounced in agriculture and mining …

This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where … they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly …). The shift away from the east coast metropolitan areas to California reflects the change in the origins of immigrants from …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

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 robust negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …