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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...
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officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …
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This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing … account GDP per capita and the unemployment rate as the main regional economic indicators. We find that immigration has no … significant effect on property prices, but that higher property prices significantly reduce immigration rates. We also find no …
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immigrant groups. -- public housing ; immigration ; segregation ; France …
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Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far …-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a … substantial effect on the political views of the electorate, generating an advantage to these parties with anti-immigration or …
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This study develops a theoretical framework for the study of the tendency for immigrant groups to be geographically concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively related to age at migration, duration of residence...
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We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
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INSEE (Paris) in 1982, 1990, and 1999. Our estimates show that, in general, migrants live more frequently in social housing … than French natives, other observables being equal. In particular, this probability is higher for migrants from Turkey …, Morocco, Southeast Asia, Algeria, Tunisia and Sub-Saharan Africa (in descending order). We find also that migrants of all …
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Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...
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historical flows of German, Norwegian, and domestic migrants in the US and document that climate sorting also holds within …
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