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In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
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A central objective of modern US housing policy is deconcentrating poverty through "housing mobility programs" that move poor families into middle class neighborhoods. Pursuing these policies too aggressively risks inducing middle class flight, but being too cautious squanders the opportunity to...
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The belief that it is fairer if communities are ``mixed'' can be traced at least to the late nineteenth century and the founders of the Garden City Movement. The idea is now firmly established in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national policies. This article...
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The belief that it is fairer if communities are ``mixed'' can be traced at least to the late nineteenth century and the founders of the Garden City Movement. The idea is now firmly established in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national policies. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775033
This paper develops a simple model to explain two stylised facts about immigration. First, some countries have a low … ratio of migrants in their population, while other wealthy countries have a high number of migrants. In fact such migrants … are of the same order of magnitude as their domestic workforce. Secondly, migrants are often segregated in jobs. The …
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Immigration and multiculturalism are at the heart of modern western societies. The issue of language acquisition of … immigrants is intrinsically linked to immigration. We formally link language acquisition of immigrants to the relative size of … the immigrant's area of residence, and explicitly incorporates spatial segregation. In addition, behavioral differences of …
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This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a regime in which pupils are selected into different secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464722
Immigration and multiculturalism are at the heart of modern western societies. The issue of language acquisition of … immigrants is intrinsically linked to immigration. We formally link language acquisition of immigrants to the relative size of … the immigrant’s area of residence, and explicitly incorporates spatial segregation. In addition, behavioral differences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782836
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a regime in which pupils are selected into different secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005606957
This article studies uses census data to study the residential segregation of immigrants in France from 1968 to 1999 … period, European and non-European immigrant segregation followed diverging trends. At the macro-geographical level, the … in public housing. Within urban areas, national origin segregation was predominant until 1968 for all groups and declined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187591