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Right to buy... time to move? : investigating the effect of the right to buy on moving behaviour in the UK
Ham, Maarten van; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796487
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Are immigrant and minority homeownership rates gaining ground in the US?
Chakrabarty, Durba; Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V.; … - 2017
This paper investigates post-2000 trends in homeownership rates in the US by immigrant status, race, and ethnicity …. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the early and mid-2000s but fell during and after the … housing bust. By 2015 homeownership rates had fallen below year 2000 levels for most groups but not all. In particular, some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672863
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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412790
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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities
Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019
Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997718
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Taxing billionaires : estate taxes and the geographical location of the ultra-wealthy
Moretti, Enrico; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2019
We study the effect of state-level estate taxes on the geographical location of the Forbes 400 richest Americans and its implications for tax policy. We use a change in federal tax law to identify the tax sensitivity of the ultra-wealthy's locational choices. Before 2001, some states had an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126747
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Migration networks and location decisions : evidence from U.S. mass migration
Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127192
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
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Where immigrants settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The effect of teacher gender on student achievement in primary school : evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2012
This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory results found in the economics literature and the educational psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534912
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US border enforcement and Mexican immigrant location choice
Bohn, Sarah; Pugatch, Todd - 2013
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
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