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Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices
Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large 'magnetic effect' on the location...
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Does Immigration Induce ‘Native Flight’ from Public Schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program
Gerdes, Christer - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of … opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which …
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Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants
Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001
This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual’s birth country and large overall...
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Immigration and property prices: Evidence from England and Wales
Braakmann, Nils - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the link between immigration and property prices in England and Wales. Evidence from fixed … effects and shift-share-based instrumental variable regressions suggests that an increase in the regional share of migrants (a … regions as immigration increases and (d) the number of persons per room increases with the share of immigrants. …
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Le choix de localisation des immigrés en France : le rôle du logement social et des réseaux ethniques
Verdugo, Grégory - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine septembre (2014) 2, pp. 241-269
This paper investigates the location choice across urban areas of new immigrants arrived between 1975 and 1990 in France. We investigate whether ethnic networks and public housing interact in the location choice of immigrants. By providing information on public housing in a given location,...
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Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
countries of origin who entered the country as labour, family or asylum migrants. The evidence suggests distinct settlement …
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
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Racial Differences in Homeownership: The Effect of Residential Location
Deng, Yongheng; Ross, Stephen L.; Wachter, Susan M. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2002
The rate of homeownership among African-American households is considerably lower than white households in American urban areas. This paper examines whether racial differneces in residential location outcomes are among the factors that contribute to the large racial differences in homeownership...
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Do Reported Attitudes towards Immigrants Predict Ethnic Discrimination?
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people’s attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...
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Price Discrimination in the Housing Market
Bayer, Patrick; Casey, Marcus D.; Ferreira, Fernando; … - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2012
This paper sets out a new research design to test for price discrimination by sellers in the housing market. The design controls carefully for unobserved differences in the quality of neighborhoods and homes purchased by buyers of each race, using novel panel data from over two million...
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