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Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787021
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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/10012658256
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Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816640
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Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Stuart, Bryan; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141344
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Institutions, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the Gold Rush
Brodeur, Abel; Haddad, Joanne - 2018
residents of gold rush counties still have more favorable attitudes toward homosexuality nowadays. Our findings are consistent … following decades) and are currently less religious, suggesting a role of institutions in shaping attitudes and norms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984517
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Who Does Not like Migrants? Individual Demographics and Attitudes Towards Migration
Rozo, Sandra V.; Urbina, Maria J. - 2020
for immigration. These responses are disproportionately driven by the changes in attitudes of young males, with less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322641
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Attitudes Towards Migrants during Crisis Times
Chatruc, Marisol Rodríguez; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
How are natives' attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more empathy towards migrants … economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan forced migrants. We find … that natives' attitudes towards migrants are substantially more negative in the treatment relative to the control group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597465
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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates
Liebig, Thomas; Puhani, Patrick A.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
revenue-increasing effect of a rise in tax rate. The migratory responses of foreigners and other age-education groups are even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762289
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Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The initial settlement behaviour and the subsequent mobility of immigrants who arrived in the Netherlands in 1999 are examined using rich administrative individual data. The study considers the settlement patterns of immigrants from various countries of origin who entered the country as labour,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763568
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The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
Stuart, Bryan; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of social connectedness on crime across U.S. cities from 1970 to 2009. Migration networks among African Americans from the South generated variation across destinations in the concentration of migrants from the same birth town. Using this novel source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005929