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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652102
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Placing the poor while keeping the rich in their place
Caulkins, Jonathan P.; Feichtinger, Gustav; Grass, Dieter; … - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 1, pp. 1-34
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163182
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Policies for mixed communities: faith-based displacement activity?
Cheshire, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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/10010745367
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Policies for Mixed Communities
Cheshire, Paul - In: International Regional Science Review 32 (2009) 3, pp. 343-375
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
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A simple theory of the optimal number of immigrants
Chao, Chi-Chur; Hazari, Bharat R.; Laffargue, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930197
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SEGREGACIÓN LABORAL Y ESTRUCTURAS SALARIALES DE NATIVOS E INMIGRANTES EN ESPAÑA. UN ANÁLISIS CON DATOS EMPAREJADOS EMPRESA-TRABAJADOR
Sanromá, Esteban; Simón, Hipólito J.; Ramos, Raúl - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2007
the Spanish labour market, paying special attention to the effect of immigrant segregation into low-paying occupations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005212519
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A spatial economic perspective on language acquisition : segregation, networking and assimilation of immigrants
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Graaff, Thomas de; Waldorf, … - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2004
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/10005150483
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Age at migration and social integration
Skans, Oskar Nordström; Aslund, Olof; Bohlmark, Anders - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317958
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Educational Effects of Alternative Secondary School Tracking Regimes in Germany
Weber, Andrea - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006
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
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A spatial economic perspective on language acquisition : segregation, networking and assimilation of immigrants
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Graaff, Thomas de; Waldorf, … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2004
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