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Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536015
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Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
dustmann, christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2004
We analyze the association between concentration of minorities and local economic conditions on the one side, and racial harassment and hostile majority attitudes on the other. We distinguish the formation of hostile attitudes and the realization of acts of racially motivated violence as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967962
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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
self-selection plays an important role in immigrant residential segregation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399841
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The Employment of the Roma - Evidence from Hungary
Kertesi, Gabor - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2004
The paper is based on data of individual work histories of the 1993/94 representative Roma survey in Hungary. First the disappearance of full employment of Roma in the 1984-1994 period is documented by the use of a quasi cross-sectional macro model and the patterns of employment characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005242972
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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207255
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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Graaff, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650609
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A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales
Feng, Zhiqiang; van Ham, Maarten; Boyle, Paul; Raab, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653983
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How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer.
Zenou, Yves; Aslund, Olof; Osth, John - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to obtain exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317980
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Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper explores the relationship between residential proximity of individuals from the same ethnic group and the probability of finding a job through social networks, relative to other search methods. Using individual-level data from the UK Labour Force survey and spatial statistics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415373
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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Graaff, Thomas de; Poot, Jacques; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493087