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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/10010745367
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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In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … these effects are much more limited in magnitude. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the …
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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 …
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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 article explores patterns and determinants of immigrant segregation for 10 immigrant groups in established, new … metropolitan areas can fully account for the heightened levels of segregation observed in new and minor destinations. Overall, the …
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be reshaped by the changing meaning of race and ethnicity, shifting patterns of racial segregation in neighborhoods and …
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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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