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to income segregation …We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the … segregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic segregation in Englandiquest;s schools are high, with …
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segregation, in 100 Hungarian towns. We combine administrative data with data from a survey that we collected from municipality … heterogeneity across towns. The more segregationist the local policies are, the higher the segregation in the town, thus suggesting … that local policies have room to influence school segregation in this system. However, the impact of local educational …
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In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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Why do high-income black households live in neighborhoods with characteristics similar to those of low-income white … households? We find that neighborhood sorting by income and race cannot be explained by financial constraints: High-income, high …-wealth black households live in similar-quality neighborhoods as low-income, low-wealth white households. We provide evidence that …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571932
We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...
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We find that exogenous increases in segregation lead to decreases in Black civic efficacy, as measured by an ability to …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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contrast how lower income Hispanic and African-American men fared during the civil rights era relative to lower-income non … significant acceleration following the Civil Rights Act in the relative earnings of low-income Hispanic men. -- anti …-discrimination legislation ; minority economic progress ; Mexican Americans ; Hispanic ; low income ; Civil Rights Act ; longitudinal …
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