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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia

Battaglia, Marianna; Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; … - 2017

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using … segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian …

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Living and working in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas

Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; de Graaff, … - 2012

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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Pre-hire factors and workplace ethnic segregation

Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; … - 2011

ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from … level, workplace neighbourhood segregation is lower than residential neighbourhood segregation. Our micro-level analysis … further shows that high levels of residential exposure of immigrants to natives help to reduce ethnic segregation at the level …

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Migration, ethnicity and economic integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

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Ethnic identity and immigrants' wages in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...

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Moving to segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian cities

Boeri, Tito; de Philippis, Marta; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2012

migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local level (the block) and include measures of house prices, commuting …We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the … employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the population of both legal and illegal …

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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …

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