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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories
Selod, Harris; Gobillon, Laurent; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...
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Information and Racial Exclusion
Lundberg, Shelly; Startz, Richard - 2004
disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … asymmetries. Minority groups necessarily suffer disproportionately from segregation, since the degree to which transactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262133
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The construction of neighbourhoods and its relevance for the measurement of social and ethnic segregation: evidence from Denmark
Piil Damm, Anna; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2008
illustrate the importance of detailed neighbourhood information we compare social and ethnic segregation measured by Isolation …
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty
Bjerk, David - 2009
across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative …
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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 … and highlights how public housing participation is related to contemporary segregation. At the macro-geographical level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274609
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Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - 2012
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282488
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703686
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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293116