Does the regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants …-language learner (ELL) student population and over 60 % of immigrants are from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research …

children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of …

to the 1988 free secondary education reform in the Philippines to examine the impact of years of education on the … propensity of working abroad. The results suggest that free secondary education increased the years of education for men …. Moreover, the additional years of education reduced the likelihood of working abroad by 3.2% points on average. However, an …

This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and … continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the "Next Steps" Survey in England and use … negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning …

A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education …, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughout their working career. This … paper investigates the role of 'qualitative' education-job matches in explaining these poor labor market outcomes. Using a …

child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … in parental background. Once we control for education, family, residence and industry related choices, differences in the …

demonstrate several new empirical findings. First, Japanese immigrants exhibit daughter preference. Second, assortative matching … high degree of heterogeneity across groups. Most of the second- and higher-order generation immigrants assimilate more …

. Focusing on low-skilled immigrants, this paper empirically examines the effect of minimum wages on location decisions within …