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Rural immigrant population growth, 1950-2000: wavesor ripples?
Dust, Andrew; Orazem, Peter F.; Wohlgemuth, Darin - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
native population growth to the economic incentives offered by ruralcounties in the Midwest and the South. We find that in … immigrant population inthese nontraditional rural destinations is not tied to concentrations of existing immigrantpopulations …. Rural immigrant population growth is more responsive than native populations toeconomic incentives and immigrant growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360802
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Exogenous Shocks and the Dynamics of City Growth: Evidence from New York
Haughwout, Andrew; Rabin, Bess - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>
[...]This paper empirically examines the spatial and temporalresponses of the New York City economy to a large, butspatially concentrated, exogenous shock to its capital stock:the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Our focus on thecity’s response allows us to draw inferences about how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869694
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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends
Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870043
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Immigration Trends in the New York Metropolitan Area
Borjas, George J. - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.> / Department of … - 2005
[...]This paper documents the impact of recent changes inimmigration settlement patterns on the skill endowment ofimmigrants in the New York metropolitan area. The empiricalanalysis uses the available U.S. census microdata between 1970and 2000 to examine two related questions that inevitably lie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869701
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State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods: An Overview of Recent Trends
Schill, Michael H.; Daniels, Glynis - Center for Urban Policy Research <New Brunswick, NJ> - 2003
New York City is well-known for the special challenges itfaces in providing the largest urban population in theUnited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869783
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Urban Colossus: Why Is New York America’s Largest City?
Glaeser, Edward L. - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.> / Department of … - 2005
[...]What explains New York’s ongoing ability to dominateAmerica’s urban landscape? In this paper, we explore theeconomic history of the city and argue that three themesemerge. First, New York’s emergence as the nation’s premier port was not the result of happenstance followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869688
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The Geography of Entrepreneurship in the New York Metropolitan Area
Rosenthal, Stuart S.; Strange, William C. - Syracuse University; Toronto / University of Toronto / … - 2005
[...]This paper builds primarily on research on agglomerationeconomies. Much of the empirical work on agglomeration hassought to estimate the effect on productivity of anestablishment’s local environment. The estimation hassometimes involved direct estimates of productivity(Henderson 2003) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869690
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The Promised City: Openness and Immigration in the Making of a WorldMetropolis
Jackson, Kenneth T. - New York <NY> / Columbia University / Department of … - 2005
[...]The focus of my remarks is something else entirely. Mypurpose is threefold: first, to make the case that the study ofhistory is essential to understanding the present and future ofany urban area; second, to suggest that in terms of age, size,density, and demographic patterns, New York has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869697
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Trajectories for the Immigrant Second Generation in New York City
Mollenkopf, John - University of the State of New York <Albany, NY> - 2005
-generation immigrantsconcentrate, like New York City, immigrants now make upalmost half the adult population—and in the case of Miami,more than three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869706