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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
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examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …
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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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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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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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difference can be explained by factors related to economic integration, such as the details of their employment conditions …
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We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into … the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of …-education our results are less robust, but in their majority point to a negative impact of ethnic networks on the probability of …
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examine how this increase in public housing participation has affected segregation. While segregation levels have increased … projects and the surrounding non-public dwellings. As a result, contemporary differences in segregation levels across … segregation has been ambiguous. While large projects have increased segregation, the inflows of non-European immigrants into small …
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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922451
: assimilation, separation, integration and marginalization. The paper highlights different aspects of immigrants' behavior and their …
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