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Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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We show differences in levels of racism within a sample of former European colonies can be traced to historical institutions. Our identification strategy relies on the reversal of fortune, a historical shock capturing the exogenous establishment of different institutions during the onset of...
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an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an … levels and two types of jobs for migrants and natives. Firms differ in the ability to employ migrants which gives rise to …
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This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level …, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important …) and calculate an index?mainly the index of dissimilarity?for each of these comparisons, this paper use segregation …
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an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … dimension of occupations additionally to the qualification of workers: migrants work in different jobs than natives do and are … jobs for migrants and natives. Firms differ in the ability to employ migrants which gives rise to wage differences between …
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The papers analyses regional differences in EU referenda results in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each of the three countries, other things being equal, high income regions were significantly more pro-European than low-income ones, while regions with a high share of ethnic minorities were...
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influx of migrants from the Republic of former Soviet Union led to the formation of new large ethnic communities. The paper …
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during the past two decades reinforced or changed patterns of residential segregation among urban neighbourhoods. German …
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