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This paper attempts to explain two basic facts of segregation in the United States in recent decades. The segregation … of blacks remains everywhere higher than the segregation of Latinos and Asians, but the levels are converging. Previous … institutional force: local land regulation. Zoning increases inter-jurisdictional inequality and economic segregation in …
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We provide evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and … compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking at both … schools and neighbourhoods, we find high levels of segregation for the different groups, along with considerable variation …
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Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...
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We analyze differences in tax filing between natives and immigrants, focusing on two empirical examples. First, we study deductions for costs associated with traveling between home and work allowed in the Swedish tax code. Using the total population of commuters within Sweden's largest commuting...
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This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in … segregation, this study focusses on ethnic segregation during leisure time. We investigate the most common leisure time activities …-of-home and out-of-workplace. Conceptually we link leisure time segregation both with residential and workplace segregation, in …
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This paper identifies racial neighborhood effects at the transaction level. By matching two large micro-datasets (ZTRAX and HMDA) for the state of Virginia, we pin down the impact of a marginal change of racial composition in a neighborhood by looking at price impacts for transactions that...
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