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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … host country before child birth matters, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited …. Inherited integration has a particularly strong impact on the marriage patterns of females. …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the …, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited. Inherited integration has a particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273949
examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …
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This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network …, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics …
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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
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As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...
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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … 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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difference can be explained by factors related to economic integration, such as the details of their employment conditions …
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