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study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
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crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
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-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Kapiteln, die Erkenntnisse zur Integration von Migranten und den Auswirkungen …
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study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531439
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 migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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endogeneity. The results show that the probability of African American migrants choosing a city is significantly reduced by per …
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The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110185
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696931
This paper attempts to explain two basic facts of segregation in the United States in recent decades. The segregation … of blacks remains everywhere higher than the segregation of Latinos and Asians, but the levels are converging. Previous … institutional force: local land regulation. Zoning increases inter-jurisdictional inequality and economic segregation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216538