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Tipping and the effects of segregation
Böhlmark, Anders; Willén, Alexander - 2017
We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labor market outcomes of … discontinuous jump in ethnic residential segregation. We exploit these thresholds to estimate the intent-to-treat effect of tipping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719083
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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities
Zenou, Yves - 2011
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130958
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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities
Zenou, Yves - 2021
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325176
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Does residential segregation matter for the labor market performance of immigrants? : evidence from Germany
Reil, Sebastian - 2018
With the arrival of over one million asylum seekers in Germany in 2015, policy discussions opened whether refugees should be spread across the country or spatially concentrated in order to facilitate their integration in society. When an immigrant locates in a residential area with many natives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961954
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Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave the neighbourhood
Boschman, Sanne; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2014
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … neighbourhoods but is unable to do so will contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of segregation, especially in the … context of the debate on voluntary segregation versus segregation due to a lack of choice. We find that ethnic minority groups …
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Explaining racial/ethnic gaps in spatial mismatch : the primacy of racial segregation
Stoll, Michael A.; Covington, Kenya L. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937901
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Explaining racial/ethnic gaps in spatial mismatch : the primacy of racial segregation
Stoll, Michael A.; Covington, Kenya L. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199839
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Hanging Out With the Usual Suspects : Neighborhood Peer Effects and Recidivism
Billings, Stephen B. - 2018
Social interactions within neighborhoods, schools and detention facilities are important determinants of criminal behavior. However, little is known about the degree to which neighborhood peers affect successful community re-entry following incarceration. This paper measures the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924396
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Neighborhood effects on food consumption
Tammy, Leonard; McKillop, Caitlin; Carson, Jo Ann; … - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 51 (2014), pp. 99-113
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Residential choices of young Americans
Patacchini, Eleonora; Arduini, Tiziano - 2016
Using detailed data on a cohort of young Americans who were in their late twenties and early thirties in 2008, we investigate the importance of forces different from economic incentives in nest-leaving decisions. We apply recent methods from social network econometrics to identify the importance...
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