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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470405
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The golden middle class neighborhood : trends in residential segregation and consequences for offspring outcomes
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2018
Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887087
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803329
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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? : results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2014
distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of … detailed geographical context of the city of Amsterdam. Schelling's classical segregation model is used as the theoretical … interpreted as revealing unobserved preferences for co-location of individuals with their own group and find that the segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369838
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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation
Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018
ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to be as close as possible to the average assimilation behavior of her … assimilation norms may emerge in steady state depending on the structure of the network. We then consider the role of cultural and … government leaders in the assimilation process of ethnic minorities and an optimal tax/subsidy policy which aim is to reach a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821187
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Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling
Grimes, Arthur L.; Stillman, Steven; Young, Chris - 2011
We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the probability that a school board proceeds to election,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522491
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The deterrent effect of voting against minarets : identity utility and foreigners' location choice
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387163
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Migrant networks and destination choice: evidence from moves across Turkish provinces
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021
This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607790
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Parents, neighbors and youth crime
Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2020
We study the interplay between parental and peer socialization in shaping criminal behavior among adolescents. We develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The model predicts that parental and peer socialization are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322208
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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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