British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local labour markets and the wider economy. Average labour...

Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVII-XX Centuries) This present collective volume, coordinated by Mircea Brie, Sorin Şipoş and Ioan Horga, contains the papers of the international conference Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the...

Neighborhood racial and class segregation continue to be major social problems within America’s metropolitan areas. Segregation has been linked to a whole host of racial and class inequalities, including access to jobs, schooling and single parenthood, and future earnings. One factor...

The black-white gap in low birth weight in the United States remains large and mostly unexplained. A large literature links segregation to adverse black birth outcomes but, to the best of our knowledge, no studies explore how this relationship has changed over time. We explore the relationship...

Social segregation has profound impacts on socioeconomic outcomes. Using anonymized GPS records for Singapore which we spatially join to census records, we examine daily movement across geographically-refined neighborhoods. We show that the GPS-derived data detect segregation by poverty, even...

Social segregation has profound impacts on socioeconomic outcomes. Using anonymized GPS records for Singapore which we spatially join to census records, we examine daily movement across geographically-refined neighborhoods. We show that the GPS-derived data detect segregation by poverty, even...

In Latvia, three sizeable groups of the working-age population – ethnic minorities, residents of the Latgale region, and the low-educated – feature substantially lower employment rates than those not belonging to these groups. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the corresponding...

We introduce a new statistical definition of an immigrant ethnic neighborhood based on a choice model and using the location distribution of natives as a benchmark. We then examine the characteristics of ethnic neighborhoods in the United States using decadal census tract data from 1970-2010. We...

How to allocate college seats across regions is an important yet largely neglected issue. It may imply a policy tradeoff between efficiency in aggregate human capital production and equality of opportunities for people growing up in different places. Furthermore, the flow of college attendance,...

This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate...