Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany

•This paper analyses the impact of regional ethnic concentration on the language proficiency and language use of immigrants.•The identification strategy exploits the exogenous guest-worker placement after WWII in Germany.•We find significant negative exterrnalities of enclaves on host country langua...

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Volume:	131
Main Author:	Danzer, Alexander M Yaman, Firat
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.11.2016 ELSEVIER
published in:	Journal of economic behavior & organization Vol. 131; pp. 151 - 165
ORCID:	0000-0002-5752-6922
Data of publication:	November 2016
ISSN:	0167-2681 1879-1751
EISSN:	1879-1751
Discipline:	Business Economics
Subjects:	Integration Human capital Immigrant Enclave Misclassification error Hypothetical relocation Guest-worker program Ethnic concentration Migrant sorting Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Immigrants Language acquisition Analysis R23 Integration Human capital J61 Immigrant Enclave F22 Misclassification error Hypothetical relocation Guest-worker program Ethnic concentration Migrant sorting SPEAKING FLUENCY ENGLISH ACQUISITION SKILLS EARNINGS SEGREGATION ENCLAVES PROFICIENCY OUTCOMES
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2016 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) OpenAIRE OpenAIRE (Open Access) Database information Databases - DBIS