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Echenique, Federico; Roland G. Fryer Jr. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to … interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any segregation measure should satisfy, we prove that one and only one … segregation index satisfies our three axioms, and the two aims mentioned above; which we coin the Spectral Segregation Index. We …

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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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Urban Spatial Structure, Employement and Social Ties

Picard, Pierre; Zenou, Yves - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2014

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The Formation of Migrant Networks

Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...

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The Formation of Migrant Networks

Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education

Hinrichs, Peter - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2014

This descriptive paper documents how segregation between blacks and whites across colleges in the United States has … study the issue of segregation within colleges. The main findings are as follows: (1) White exposure to blacks has been …) A major channel for the decline in segregation is the declining share of blacks attending historically black colleges …

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My Group Beats Your Group: Evaluating Non-Income Inequalities

Cuhadaroglu, Tugce - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2013

we make use of the Domination Index to explore the relation between inequality and segregation and show how these two …

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

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Erfolge trotz schlechter Startbedingungen: was hilft Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland?

Tucci, Ingrid; Jossin, Ariane; Keller, Carsten; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 41, pp. 3-11

Die Bildungs- und Erwerbsverläufe von Migrantenkindern in Frankreich und Deutschland sind äußerst vielfältig. In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung dominieren die wenig Erfolgreichen. Dabei sind erfolgreiche Biographien junger Erwachsener mit Migrationshintergrund aber keineswegs eine zu...

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