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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600920
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824259
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves … the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were … initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a robust negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286651
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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519441
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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522428
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
immigrants across Germany. -- Enclave ; ethnic concentration ; language proficiency ; immigrants ; instrumental variable ; random … the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939170
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
equal distribution of immigrants the share of German-speakers increases only modestly. -- Enclave ; ethnic concentration …The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves … the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973726
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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146336
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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147864
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262689