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and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative …
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social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial …
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, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression …
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We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types’ which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves …
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is …
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Is there a multicultural neighborhood price premium? We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in British colonization patterns in Northern Ireland during the early 1600s which created neighborhoods of varying religious composition that persists until today. These religious groups are culturally...
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We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts the number of individuals of the same ethnicityand the quality of contacts welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS...
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communities in 2003, we find substantial evidence for income sorting. -- tax competition ; fiscal federalism ; income segregation …
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