Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities

George Borjas

Chapter 7 in Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics, 2021, pp 135-160 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The socioeconomic performance of today’s workers depends not only on parental skills, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parents’ generation (or ethnic capita/). This paper investigates the link between the ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence indicates that residential segregation and the external effect of ethnicity are linked, partly because ethnic capital summarizes the socioeconomic background of the neighborhood where the children were raised. Ethnicity has an external effect, even among persons who grow up in the same neighborhood, when children are exposed frequently to persons who share the same ethnic background.

Keywords: Immigration; Economics; Labor Markets; Refugees; Self-selection; Return Migration; Migration; Costs and Benefits from Immigration; Assimilation; Cohort Effects; National Origin; Ethnicity; Neighborhood Effects; Ethnic Capital; Internal Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J01 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities (1995)
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