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Public Housing and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in France, 1968-1999
Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France from 1968 to 1999 using census data. During this period, European and non-European immigrant segregation followed diverging trends. This paper documents the large increase in...
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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing : How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
van Ham, Maarten - 2014
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the contradictory aims of providing greater choice – through the introduction of choice based letting – for households accessing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066511
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Fougère, Denis - 2014
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068381
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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/10013043684
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Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France
Verdugo, Gregory - 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/10012918233
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Knocking it Down and Mixing it Up : The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations
Blanco, Hector; Neri, Lorenzo - 2023
Due to their negative effects on surrounding neighborhoods, some countries have gradually been replacing distressed public housing developments with mixed-income housing. This paper studies the effects of such policies on local housing markets in London (UK), where local authorities demolished...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263925
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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular
Aterido, Reyes - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120129
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Family Networks and School Enrolment : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
Angelucci, Manuela - 2009
extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames … family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research design of the PROGRESA … the characteristics of extended family. We find PROGRESA only raises secondary enrolment among households that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155164
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Family Size, Sibling Rivalry and Migration : Evidence from Mexico
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017
This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed … across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966044
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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
de Janvry, Alain - 2010
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134821