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How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786980
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Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves
Fernández, M. Angeles Carnero; Olalla, Lídia Farré; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2011
We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartments in different areas of the two largest Spanish cities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919599
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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Arribas-Bel, Daniel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129939
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How Diverse can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations on an Agent-Based Model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups 'such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes' are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256812
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COLOURFUL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN DUTCH CITIES: A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Sahin, Mediha; Todiras, Alina; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Regional Science Inquiry 3 (2011) 2, pp. 179-197
Entrepreneurship has clearly evolved as a critical element in the organization and restructuring of modern economies …, governments have acknowledged and started promoting the role of entrepreneurship in stimulating economic growth and development …. After an exposition of entrepreneurship and migrant entrepreneurship, the urban orientation of this new form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546990
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Multicultural Diversity and Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Netherlands
Sahin, Mediha; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan-Levent, Tuzin - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2006
With the advent of the era of mass migration in Europe, the issue of cultural diversity (CD ) has gained increasing social and political interest. There is a changing and often contradictory relationship between immigration, the increasing CD as a result of migration, and the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783029
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COLOURFUL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN DUTCH CITIES: A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Sahin, Mediha; Todiras, Alina; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Regional Science Inquiry III (2011) 2, pp. 179-197
Entrepreneurship has clearly evolved as a critical element in the organization and restructuring of modern economies …, governments have acknowledged and started promoting the role of entrepreneurship in stimulating economic growth and development …. After an exposition of entrepreneurship and migrant entrepreneurship, the urban orientation of this new form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010648221