TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Danzer, Alexander M.
AU  - Feuerbaum, Carsten
AU  - Piopiunik, Marc
AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
        PY  - 2018/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11608
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11608
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - language
KW  - ethnic concentration
KW  - immigrant children
KW  - education
KW  - guest workers
        ER  -