• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
  • Contributor: Danzer, Alexander M. [Author]; Feuerbaum, Carsten [Author]; Piopiunik, Marc [Author]; Woessmann, Ludger [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2018
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: education ; I20 ; J61 ; J15 ; guest workers ; ethnic concentration ; R23 ; immigrant children ; language
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  • Description: Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in a model with region and ethnicity fixed effects. Our results indicate that exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents’ lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language, whereas inter-ethnic contacts with natives and economic conditions do not play a role.
  • Access State: Open Access