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Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2013

In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the … association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually … commitments are influenced by neighbourhood characteristics. We investigate this process for migrant youth, a group that lags …

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Neighborhood dynamics and the distribution of opportunity

Aliprantis, Dionissi; Carroll, Daniel R. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 1, pp. 247-303

This paper studies neighborhood effects using a dynamic general equilibrium model. Households choose where to live and how much to invest in their child's human capital. The return on parents' investment is determined in part by their child's ability and in part by a neighborhood externality. We...

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The Golden Middle Class Neighborhood : Trends in Residential Segregation and Consequences for Offspring Outcomes

Markussen, Simen - 2018

Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger...

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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods : is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014

Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...

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Do welfare dependent neighbors matter for individual welfare dependency?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dang, Rui - 2016

Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Verhalten in Bezug auf die Inanspruchnahme … der Empfängerquote der Nachbarschaft korreliert ist. D.h., ein 1%-iger Anstieg der Sozialleistungsempfängerquote in der … Nachbarschaft erhöht ceteris paribus die individuelle Wahrscheinlichkeit des Bezuges um 0.97%. …

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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis

Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; Ham, Maarten van; Kempen, … - 2014

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...

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Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis

Zwiers, Merle - 2015

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Alleviating Urban Poverty by Mobilizing Neighborhood Labor

Copple, Robert Warren - 2013

The ongoing problem of urban poverty has resisted almost all attempts at finding a solution. This paper proposes that by mobilizing the available labor in a poor urban neighborhood, poverty can be alleviated. This will require a motivated community organizer along with community leaders who...

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

, wird in diesem Papier der Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebot von Frauen untersucht. Aufgrund … vollzeitbeschäftigten Frauen in der Nachbarschaft getrieben. Diese Effekte sind stärker im Subsample der Mütter ausgeprägt. Sobald wir für …

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Parents, neighbors and youth crime

Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2020

We study the interplay between parental and peer socialization in shaping criminal behavior among adolescents. We develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The model predicts that parental and peer socialization are...

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