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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties
Picard, Pierre; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...
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Social Comparisons and Attitudes towards Foreigners - Evidence from the ‘Fall of the Iron Curtain’
Schneider, Lutz; Hyll, Walter - 2016
We exploit the natural experiment of German division and reunification to address the question whether individuals who feel distress from social comparisons in terms of income reveal more negative attitudes towards foreigners. Our empirical approach rests upon individuals from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527732
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the Chinese have a competitive edge over Africans because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chineseʹs supposed...
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Why are East Germans not more mobile? Analyzing the impact of local networks on migration intentions
Schneider, Lutz; Bönisch, Peter - 2010
Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willingness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel, we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find that...
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How Immigration Reduced Social Capital in the US: 2005-2011
Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013
Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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Migropolis: migration networks and formation of ethnic clusters in cities
Coniglio, Nicola Daniele - 2004
In this paper we extend previous models of migration networks and ethnic cluster formation by considering migration as an ethnic-community wide phenomena where established migrants strategically provide support to newcomers. The incentive to provide support is associated with positive...
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany: Are East Europeans Worse Off?
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
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Heterogeneous Firms and Substitution by Tasks: the Productivity Effect of Migrants
Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - 2012
Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...
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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014
refugees and their families towards labour immigrants and their families, where family unifications with labour immigrants … exceed the family unifications with refugees since 2007. Refugees and their families show the strongest tendency to stay in … increased their share of immigrants. A stable immigration of refugees towards less central areas results in a strong and …
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Distance is crucially important, at least for neighbors: Foreign employment at the district level
Nagl, Wolfgang; Lehmann, Robert - 2015
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