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Assessing the role of ethnic enclaves and neighborhood conditions in volunteering among Latinos in Chicago

Gilster, Megan E.; Meier, Cristian L.; Booth, Jaime M. - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly : journal of … 49 (2020) 3, pp. 479-501

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Love, money, location : the interconnectedness of marital status, income, and location choice of immigrants to British Columbia, Canada

Voia, Marcel-Christian; Ci, Wen; Haan, Michael - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 83 (2017) 4, pp. 421-444

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HUMAN CAPITAL TRAPS? ENCLAVE EFFECTS USING LINKED EMPLOYER-HOUSEHOLD DATA

Sousa, Liliana D. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

neighborhood and workplace affiliation, on immigrant earnings. Though ethnic enclaves can provide economic opportunities through … correlated with lower earnings. For immigrants with a high school education or less, these correlations are primarily due to … negative self-selection. On the other hand, self-selection fails to explain the lower earnings associated with higher ethnic …

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 22 (2024) 2, pp. 205-230

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Do co-ethnic commuters disseminate labor market information? : evidence from geocoded register data

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2023

This article provides causal evidence of the significant role ethnic networks play in facilitating labor market integration by reducing information frictions. Using full population geocoded employer-employee matched Swedish register data, we investigate how co-ethnic commuters can influence the...

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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Graaff, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....

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The Mobility of Immigrants and Natives: Evidence from Internal Migration Following Job Displacement

Boman, Anders - In: Regional Studies 45 (2011) 3, pp. 283-297

Boman A. The mobility of immigrants and natives: evidence from internal migration following job displacement, Regional Studies. In times of change in the labour market, differences in migratory behaviour between groups affect the labour market outcome of these groups. One important group in...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Graaff, Thomas de; Poot, Jacques; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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