The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters …

latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation …

agent preferring the resulting segregation. We examine the robustness of Schelling's model, focusing in particular on its … integration, best-response dynamics will lead to segregation. What is more, we argue that the one-dimensional and two …-dimensional versions of Schelling's spatial proximity model are in fact two qualitatively very different models of segregation. …

strictly prefers this. We make a first step to generalize the spatial proximity model to a proximity model of segregation. That … main result is that the system attains levels of segregation that are in line with those reached in the lattice …-based spatial proximity model. In other words, mild proximity preferences can explain segregation not just in regular spatial …

We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working …-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the … distribution of human capital, industry and geography. We find considerable workplace segregation between immigrants and natives …

testing for segregation in empirical studies. It is shown and exemplified - using data on workplace segregation between … immigrants and natives in Sweden - how the method can be applied to correct any measure of segregation for differences between … segregation by means of peer group exposure. …

outcomes; for instance, the earnings gain associated with a standard deviation increase in ethnic concentration is in the order …