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Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties : European versus American cities

Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...

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Spatial versus social mismatch : the strength of weak ties

Zenou, Yves - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...

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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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Unemployment, segregation, and the structure of cities

Heuermann, Daniel F.; Vom Berge, Philipp - 2024

We examine the residential segregation of workers and the unemployed in the 80 largest cities in Germany. Drawing on a … unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … rise of segregation was characterized by a third phenomenon: a trend towards "localization", i.e., a tendency of workers …

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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation

Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022

This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

in the United Kingdom. Taking advantage of a unique dataset, we measure the extent of residential segregation along …

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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009

We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation …

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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015

measuring spatial dependence, particularly in the form of segregation or clusters. We conclude that there will be in the future …

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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...

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Bend it like Beckham : ethnic identity and integration

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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