that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, but that residential segregation has … remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing integration of immigrants in … their host society and having a negative impact on people's lives. Segregation research often focuses on residential …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … immigrants across Germany. -- Enclave ; ethnic concentration ; language proficiency ; immigrants ; instrumental variable ; random …

the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …

The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves … initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a robust negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … equal distribution of immigrants the share of German-speakers increases only modestly. -- Enclave ; ethnic concentration …