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No room to live : urban overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009
and Ireland. We investigate the causes of this spatial distribution of overcrowding and find that prices, especially rents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860382
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Social isolation, loneliness and return migration : evidence from older Irish adults
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this paper, we examine whether and the extent to which a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530751
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Exploring the early-life causes and later-life consequences of migration through a longitudinal study on ageing
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as … economic circumstances and health. One of the features of Ireland's older population is the remarkably high proportion of … returned migrants, that is, former emigrants who have returned to live in Ireland. According to the TILDA data over 20 per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629040
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Tackling social exclusion : evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358745
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Why do some young adults not graduate from upper secondary school? : on the importance of signals of labour market failure
Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016
In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors associated with not graduating from upper secondary school at age 21. Our hypothesis is that if a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457395
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You'll never walk alone : unemployment, social networks and leisure activities
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423683
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Public housing magnets : public housing supply and immigrants' location choices
Verdugo, Gregory - 2014
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large "magnetic effect" on the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434485
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International migration and regional housing markets : evidence from France
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2017
This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing market in host regions. We constructed a unique database from administrative records and used it to assess annual migration flows into France's 22 administrative regions from 1990...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607539
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Can public housing decrease segregation? : lessons and challenges from non-European immigration in France
Verdugo, Gregory; Toma, Sorana - 2018
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French census data over three decades, we examine how this increase in public housing participation has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863725
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Housing conditions and health in urban China
Ding, Lanlin; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7...
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