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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...

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Child height and intergenerational transmission of health : evidence from ethnic Indians in England

Alacevich, Caterina; Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2016

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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...

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Sex, race, and job satisfaction among highly educated workers

Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015

There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...

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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand

Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015

Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the …

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … population with over 60 percent of immigrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative …

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The formation of networks in the diaspora

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2016

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering different possible interactions between … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase …

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Residential segregation from generation to generation : intergenerational association in socio-spatial context among visible minorities and the majority population in metropolitan...

Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016

In this paper, we investigate to what degree young adults live in neighbourhoods that are similar, in terms of relative average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use regression analysis on register data for all individuals who were born in 1974 and lived in...

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The impact of labour market discrimination on welfare dependency of second generation immigrants in the UK

Ghazaryan, Armine - 2019

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Impact of the Syrian refugee influx on Turkish native workers : an ethnic enclave approach

Bağır, Yusuf Kenan - In: Central Bank review / The Central Bank of the Republic … 18 (2018) 4, pp. 129-147

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