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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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In the last three decades, the population of Amsterdam has been 'coloured' due to immigration flows from abroad and a … mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics - among which the level of ethnic … segregation - and family ties? This article examines spatial mobility process of Amsterdam population using administrative …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … these effects are much more limited in magnitude. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the …
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This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...
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This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France … from 1968 to 1999 using census data. During this period, European and non-European immigrant segregation followed diverging … and highlights how public housing participation is related to contemporary segregation. At the macro-geographical level …
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This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a regime in which pupils are selected into different secondary...
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countries of origin who entered the country as labour, family or asylum migrants. The evidence suggests distinct settlement …
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Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
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disappears when the immigration share reaches 50%. We conclude that discriminatory practices in the rental housing market … contribute to perpetuate the ethnic spatial segregation observed in large cities. …
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We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation … suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
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