Enclaves, language, and the location choice of migrants

By T. Bauer, G. Epstein, Ira N. Gang. Social Science Research Network, 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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International Migration and the Economics of Language (2014, result): “Combining these results, Bauer et al. (2005, p.660) concluded ‘...enclaves are a potential source for a “language trap”; they attract poor proficiency English speakers and sustain their poor abilities’. The findings of Bauer et al. (2005) were robust with respect to alternative definitions of an eth”
Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks (2010, background): “In line with the migration networks literature (Massey, Goldring & Durand, 1994; Carrington, Detragiache, & Vishwanath, 1996; Bauer et al., 2005; Munshi, 2003; Kanbur & Rapoport, 2005), we assume that it is decreasing with the size of the community migration network, n: C C n , C 0.”
Determinants of recent immigrants’ location choices: quasi-experimental evidence (2009, background): “Some empirical evidence in favour of each of these theories exists, see e.g. Bauer et al. (2002a) for supportive evidence of the ethnic network theory, Chiswick and Miller (2005) for empirical evidence of the ethnic goods theory and Bauer et al. (2002b) for empirical validation of the herd effects…”
Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment? (2002, background): “Finally, these communication costs for the immigrants can be reduced by living and/or working in a linguistic concentration area (Bauer, Epstein, and Gang, 2002).”
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany 1 (2012, background): “It can be argued that immigrants who live in regions with many co-ethnics can benefit more from their origin-country skills than do immigrants who live in the regions with few co-ethnics (Chiswick and Miller, 2002, 2005; Bauer, Epstein, and Gang, 2005).”