%0 Report
        %A Danzer, Alexander M.
%A Feuerbaum, Carsten
%A Piopiunik, Marc
%A Woessmann, Ludger
        %T Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
        %D 2018
        %8 2018 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11608
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11608
        %X 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.
        %K language
%K ethnic concentration
%K immigrant children
%K education
%K guest workers