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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic ‘enclaves’ within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a...

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Attitudes to Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic Context and Location Decisions

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social exclusion and of the welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by the ethnic composition of the locality in which...

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

Aslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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

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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the...

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Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...

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Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper analyses the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model also accounts for unobserved heterogeneity and possibly endogenous initial conditions. We estimate the model on a large representative Swedish panel dataset, LINDA, for the...

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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties

Picard, Pierre M; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities — and particularly blacks — have remained in city centres. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential...

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups within the same country. The second goal … is to correlate measures of segregation with measures of quality of the polity and policymaking. The third is to … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality. …

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Credit Standards and Segregation

Ouazad, Amine; Rancière, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

How do credit standards on the mortgage market affect neighbourhood choice and the resulting level of urban segregation …? To answer this question, we first develop a model of neighbourhood choice with credit constraints. The model shows that a … relaxation of credit standards can either increase or decrease segregation, depending on racial income gaps and on races …

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