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The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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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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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 … and highlights how public housing participation is related to contemporary segregation. At the macro-geographical level …
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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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We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
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There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with … segregation in England over the last 40 years. We show that standard measures of segregation point to gentle declines over time … account for a substantial fraction of the local population. We then explore the link between immigrant segregation, enclaves …
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This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using … substantial ethnic segregation across both workplaces and residential locations and that the extent of segregation has been … relatively stable over the last 30 years. Workplace segregation is particularly pronounced in agriculture and mining …
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We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the … migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local level (the block) and include measures of house prices, commuting … specification, a 10 percentage points increase in residential segregation reduces the probability of being employed by 7 percentage …
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This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater … economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed … segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …
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