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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009

This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in homevalue appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...

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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the GSOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the...

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Do welfare dependent neighbors matter for individual welfare dependency?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dang, Rui - 2016

This paper investigates neighborhood peer effects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with...

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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?

Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016

In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...

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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? : crime spillovers on individual well-being

Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015

Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the...

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

Using a uniquely assembled panel dataset, we estimate the impact of neighborhood and peer effects on female labor supply. Nonrandom sorting and unobserved heterogeneity at the individual and neighborhood levels make recovering these impact parameters more complicated in the absence of...

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Segregation, housing and neighborhood dissimilarities : a case study for the city of Bochum

Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2021

The rising concentration of low-income households and ethnic minorities has become an important policy issue in Germany. The Ruhr Area is particularly interesting, because it is one of the largest conurbations in Europe and experienced radical structural changes in the past, which are connected...

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Becoming neighbors with refugees and voting for the far-right? : the impact of refugee inflows at the small-scale level

Fremerey, Melinda; Hörnig, Lukas; Schaffner, Sandra - 2022

We investigate the effect of the refugee inflow between 2014 and 2017 on voting for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national parliamentary election in 2017 in Germany. Drawing on unique small-scale data enables us to distinguish between the contact theory, captured by...

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Ageing by feet? : regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities

Neumann, Uwe - 2016

neighbourhood-level demographic change over the period 1998-2008 is examined using KOSTAT, an annual time series compiled by … the influx is low, particularly low-density housing areas of the outer urban zone. Neighbourhood-level demographic sorting … Dusseldorf). In the process of regional adaptation to demographic change, greater diversity in the age structure of neighbourhood …

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Sorting in an urban housing market - is there a response to demographic change?

Neumann, Uwe; Taruttis, Lisa - 2019

In urban areas, there is considerable neighbourhood-level variation in population characteristics. Using Dortmund as a …

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