Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants

Labour market integration of refugees and the importance of the neighbourhood: Norwegian quasi-experimental evidence

“…The author concludes that this provides evidence that residence-based job information networks are ethnically stratified. Labour market integration of refugees and the importance of the neighbourhood: Norwegian… Germany has similar allocation policy for recently arrived refuges as the one found in Norway, and this policy has been utilised for studying causal issues related to the integration of migrants (Kanas et al 2022). Using a representative large household survey of migrants in Germany, Gërxhani and Kosyakova (2022) examine the impact of social networks for migrants' first integration into labour markets.…”

“…By and large they find no causal evidence of social networks themselves to have any impact on measured labour market integration. Using the same type of natural experiment in Germany, Kanas et al (2022) study whether the influence of being residentially allocated to a linguistic enclave have any negative effect on improving language skills. Contrary to the previous literature, they find that residing in linguistic enclaves does not impede the learning of the native language.…”