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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...

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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,...

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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 â€“ such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes â€“ are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this...

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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...

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Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial Context Retrospect and Prospect

Nijkamp, Peter - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

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