Der Blick über den Tellerrand, das Interesse an anderen Ländern und daran, wie Themen und Aufgabenstellungen, die die eigene Gesellschaft beschäftigen, in anderen Gesellschaften wahrgenommen und bearbeitet werden, stellt nicht nur eine willkommene Ergänzung und Erweiterung des eigenen...

Immigrants are typically not evenly distributed within host countries; instead they tend to cluster in particular neighborhoods. But does clustering in ethnic enclaves help explain the persistent differences in employment rates and earnings between immigrants and the native population? Empirical...

We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of the foreign born and a positive one on employment...

Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a...