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Children from migrant backgrounds : who are their Kita peers?

Gambaro, Ludovica - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 51/52, pp. 559-566

assessing the level of segregation. Using administrative data from 2007 to 2016, it shows that one-third of children who mainly …

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The formation of migrant networks

Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - 2014

This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...

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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...

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The slippery slope from pluralistic to plural societies

Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2021

examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …

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School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism : evidence from European countries

Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020

This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network …, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics …

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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …

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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs

Entorf, Horst - 2015

As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...

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The tower of Babel in the classroom : immigrants and natives in Italian schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - 2014

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Do migrant-native achievement gaps narrow? : evidence over the school career

Vonnahme, Christina - 2021

The integration of foreign origin students in host countries’ educational systems has mostly been studied based on …Die Integration von Kindern ausländischer Herkunft in das Bildungssystem wurde bisher meist anhand von …

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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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