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The effect of immigration on the German housing market
Unal, Umut; Hayo, Bernd; Erol, Isil - 2022
This study provides evidence of the causal impact of immigration on German house prices, flat prices, and flat rents using an extensive dataset covering 382 administrative districts over the period 2004-2020. Employing a panel-data approach and a manually constructed shift-share instrument, we...
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Discrimination in the Austrian rental housing market : the effect of information concerning first and second-generation immigrant status
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2024
In this study, we conduct an email correspondence test to examine ethnic discrimination against males with different immigration backgrounds (Serbian, Turkish/Muslim and Syrian/Muslim) in the Austrian rental housing market. In particular, we investigate the effect that immigrant generation has...
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Rental prices in Germany : a comparison between migrants and natives
Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Vance, Colin - 2017
This paper deals with the question of whether migrants in Germany pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable … quality. We find no evidence that having a migrant background is directly associated with higher rent. Migrants may … and statistically significant relationship with the rent. …
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The impact of migration on a regulated rental market
Tyrcha, Adam Alexander - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 7 (2020) 1, pp. 35-48
Throughout the 20th century, the Swedish rental market has generally been heavily regulated, with both a rental queue in place, as well as generally fixed rents, with limited ability to vary these. Though these systems remain in place, in the 21st century, a number of deregulatory measures have...
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How does immigration affect housing costs in Switzerland?
Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 159 (2023) 1, pp. 1-31
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labor markets ("Mobilité Spatiale" regions) and 26 cantons, respectively. We propose two empirical strategies that exploit...
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How does immigration affect housing costs in Switzerland?
Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2023
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labour markets ("Mobilité Spatiale" regions) and 26 cantons, respectively. We propose two empirical strategies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547711
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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in the screening of home rental applications conducted by Ecuadorian real estate agents (REAs). Given that Venezuelan migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally,...
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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32
At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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Colorism and immigrant earnings in the United States, 2015-2024
Hersch, Joni - 2024
Using data from the Current Populations Survey 2015-2024 matched to skin color data in the New Immigrant Survey, this article shows that immigrants from countries with darker skin color face a substantial earnings penalty. The penalty is similar to that found using 2003 data on individual...
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