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Attitudes to Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic Context and Location Decisions

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social exclusion and of the welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by the ethnic composition of the locality in which...

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

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Migration, Friendship Ties, and Cultural Assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper we contribute to the analysis of the assimilation process of migrants by analyzing the extent to which friendship with natives can be seen as a measure of cultural assimilation and investigating the formation of social ties in the host country. Using novel information from the...

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Urbanisation and Migration Externalities in China

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in …. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …

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How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer

Aslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...

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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

one of income support. …

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Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic ‘enclaves’ within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a...

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Why do Black Workers Search Less? A Transport-Mode Based Theory

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a search matching model in which blacks and whites are totally identical, except for the fact that they use different transport modes. We find that whites, who use faster transport modes (i.e. cars) than blacks (who use public transport), do search more intensively and extensively,...

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Oppositional Identities and the Labour Market

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, MacDonald; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbours) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...

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