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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage …
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The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...
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neighborhood level, largely due to compositional changes driven by Danish new entrants with lower income and education levels …. Following individuals affected by the policy, we find significant negative effects on their income with no discernible effects … on criminal behavior. We estimate that Danes are willing to accept a 3% drop in income to move out of labeled …
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spatial mismatch, endogenous location, natural experiment
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West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of …
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contrast how lower income Hispanic and African-American men fared during the civil rights era relative to lower-income non … significant acceleration following the Civil Rights Act in the relative earnings of low-income Hispanic men. …
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market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … immigrants profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of "pure" immigrants. However, East Germans are still …
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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education, health, and geographic mobility largely persisted, while employment and income benefits eroded, particularly in non …
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