Immigration and multiculturalism are at the heart of modern western societies. The issue of language acquisition of … immigrants is intrinsically linked to immigration. We formally link language acquisition of immigrants to the relative size of … instead, that there is strong support for language acquisition and understanding being positively influenced by assimilation …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

a new language more easily than older children, we construct an instrument for English proficiency using age at arrival … in the United Kingdom. Taking advantage of a unique dataset, we measure the extent of residential segregation along … speak their same native language, but not necessarily in areas with a high concentration of people of their same ethnicity …

a new language more easily than older children, we construct an instrument for English proficiency using age at arrival … in the United Kingdom. Taking advantage of a unique dataset, we measure the extent of residential segregation along … speak their same native language, but not necessarily in areas with a high concentration of people of their same ethnicity …

Hispanics. This evidence is consistent with labor market networks being an important influence on the employment of less … the importance of labor market networks, as strong labor market networks are likely to have been especially important in … inducing Hispanics to migrate, and because of these networks employment in these “new immigrant” cities is especially strongly …

major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification …