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Rental prices in Germany : a comparison between migrants and natives

Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Vance, Colin - 2017

This paper deals with the question of whether migrants in Germany pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable quality and neighborhood characteristics. We use a twostep selection-correction model augmented by a control function to account for nonrandom neighborhood choice. The estimation...

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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany

Bredtmann, Julia - 2020

This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...

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International migration from and to Prussia : 1862-1871

Bauer, Thomas K.; Schulze, Kathrin - 2023

Migration has always been an omnipresent topic in Germany. However, unlike today, in the 19th century the German territory was a country of emigration, not immigration. Using county-level data for the period from 1861 to 1871, this paper examines the determinants of emigration from and...

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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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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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Wage growth, urbanization, and firm characteristics : evidence for Germany

Kelle, Markus - 2016

I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage growth of workers. I find a statistically highly significant higher within-job wage growth rate for workers in counties with a higher population density. This provides evidence...

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

Neumann, Uwe; Taruttis, Lisa - 2019

demographic ageing in urban neighbourhoods between 2007 and 2016. We find that in Dortmund so far there has been no slump of the … housing market in neighbourhoods where the population ages more rapidly. Nevertheless, over the study period demographic … scope of urban policy to upgrade the attractiveness of ageing neighbourhoods as perceived by younger generations. …

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Endogenous segregation dynamics and housing market interactions : an ABM approach

Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2019

In contrast to previous research, I hypothesize that residential segregation patterns do not only result from an individual's perception of different ethnicities, but is rather affected by housing market interactions and socioeconomic endowment, like income and education. I implement a...

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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity : evidence from German neighborhoods

Dang, Rui - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...

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The impact of cultural diversity on the German housing market

Bayar, Mehmet - 2016

This paper documents a positive impact of cultural diversity and cultural similarity on rental prices of the German districts for the years between 2004 and 2013. On the one hand, an increase of the Herfindahl index as a measure for cultural diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12...

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