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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Graaff, Thomas - 2012

Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....

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Employment and Earning Gaps in the Early Career of Ethnic Minority British Graduates: the Importance of University Choice, Parental Background and Area Characteristics

Zwysen, Wouter; Longhi, Simonetta - 2016

We compare employment and earnings of British graduates belonging to ethnic minorities to those of white British six months and three and a half years after graduation. Six months after graduation all ethnic minority graduates are less likely than whites to be employed but those who have a job...

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How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer

Aslund, Olof; Osth, John; Zenou, Yves - 2009

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to obtain exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that...

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Immigration, Housing Discrimination and Employment

Boeri, Tito; De Philippis, Marta; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2014

We use a new dataset on eight Italian cities and a novel identification strategy to analyze the relationship between the employment status of migrants and the percentage of migrants living nearby. Our data contain information at the very local level (i.e. the residential block) and are...

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DACA, Mobility Investments, and Economic Outcomes of Immigrants and Natives

Villanueva Kiser, Jimena; Wilson, Riley - 2024

Exploiting variation created by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), we document the effects of immigrant legalization on mobility investments and economic outcomes. DACA increased both geographic and job mobility of young immigrants, leading them to high paying labor markets and...

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Mapping Out Institutional Discrimination: The Economic Effects of Federal "Redlining"

Hynsjö, Disa M.; Perdoni, Luca - 2024

This paper proposes a novel empirical strategy to estimate the causal effects of federal "redlining" – the mapping and grading of US neighborhoods by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC). In the late 1930s, a federal agency created color-coded maps to summarize the financial risk of...

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DACA, Mobility Investments, and Economic Outcomes of Immigrants and Natives

Kiser, Jimena Villanueva; Wilson, Riley - 2024

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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten - 2015

Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account … previous neighbourhoods. For Russian-speakers, the percentage of other Russian-speakers in their residential surroundings …

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Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan S...

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016

In this paper, we investigate to what degree young adults live in neighbourhoods that are similar, in terms of relative … average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use regression analysis on register data for all … poorer quartile of neighbourhoods, and of these almost two-thirds remained in the poorest quartile of neighbourhoods as …

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How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Silva … - 2016

In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent conflicts between the government, the militia group (FARC), drug trafficking, and other crime that...

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