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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F. - 2014

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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Residential segregation from generation to generation : intergenerational association in socio-spatial context among visible minorities and the majority population in metropolitan...

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

of "visible minorities" increased dramatically and residential segregation increased very considerably. We find a …

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

in the United Kingdom. Taking advantage of a unique dataset, we measure the extent of residential segregation along …

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Ethnic enclaves and labor market outcomes : what matters most: neighborhood, city or region?

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2018

The relevance of residential segregation and ethnic enclaves for labor market sorting of immigrants has been … segregation and ethnic concentration on various labor market outcomes.The geographical size of the area at which segregation and … segregation should not be used interchangeably, and more importantly, the geographical area at which they are measured relates …

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Cultural assimilation : learning and sorting

Monteiro, Stein - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 2, pp. 1-31

There are larger productivity gains to migrating from a relatively poor country than a richer one. Due to these productivity differences, immigration from a poor source country is larger. Among poor source country immigrants, their exposure to co-ethnics is larger than those from richer source...

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Ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its … migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Migration and consumption

Misuraca, Roberta; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - Draft: April 2024

, and trade, as well as native consumption responses. Consumption patterns reflect how migrants integrate into their new …

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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Moschion, Julie - 2013

crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …

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