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Segregation and Fertility : The Case of the Roma in Serbia
Battaglia, Marianna - 2017
We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using … segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948653
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Living and working in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas
Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; de Graaff, … - 2012
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282197
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Chapter 9. Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 561-624). 2015
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include a discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education, and labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025310
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows : The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
Guzi, Martin - 2019
We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration. This event involved expulsion of ethnic Germans and almost complete depopulation of an area of a country and its rapid resettlement by 2 million Czech inhabitants. Results based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863820
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Trajectories of Neighborhood Change : Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity
Zwiers, Merle - 2016
unique growth trajectories of the ethnic population composition, providing a longitudinal view of ethnic segregation … how residential mobility decreases segregation, while natural population growth tends to reinforce segregation. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983006
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Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia
Battaglia, Marianna; Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; … - 2017
We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using … segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744641
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Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves
Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Carnero, M. Angeles; Farré, Lídia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 129-152
the residential mobility of immigrants and contributes to the ethnic residential segregation observed in large cities. We … indicates that discriminatory practices may perpetuate the spatial segregation of minority groups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311749
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Ethnic enclaves and immigrant self-employment : a neighborhood analysis of enclave size and quality
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Öner, Özge - 2017
We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775558
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers : Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138738
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The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018759