Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment 
of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; Woessmann, Ludger

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Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

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Feuerbaum, Carsten
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Danzer, A. M., Feuerbaum, C., Piopiunik, M., & Woessmann, L. (2018). Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children. CESifo Working Paper, 7097.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-A918-1

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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.