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Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Satisfaction with the Neighborhood in Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertvadze, Georgi - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the relationship between immigrant residential segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood. The estimates show that immigrants living in segregated areas are less satisfied with the neighborhood. This is...

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Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: How much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2010

We explore the relative influence of family and neighbourhood on educational attainment and how this varies by sibling … 0.621 at the end of compulsory schooling. The neighbourhood explains at most 10-15% of the variance in educational …

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Disentangling Neighborhood Effects in Person-Context Research: An Application of a Neighborhood-Based Group Decomposition

Vogel, Matt; van Ham, Maarten - 2016

This paper proposes a framework to assess how compositional differences at the neighborhood level contribute to the moderating effect of neighborhood context on the association between individual risk-factors and delinquency. We propose a neighborhood-based group decomposition to partition...

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Comparison of two network-theory-based methods for detecting functional regions

Drobne, Samo; Garre, Alberto; Hontoria, Eloy; Konjar, Miha - In: Business Systems Research (BSR) 11 (2020) 2, pp. 21-35

Background: Functional regions are abstract, uniformly defined territorial units that form an important basis for many development strategies of a country or a region. Objectives: This study analyses the application of network theory to the detection of such regions. Methods/Approach: Functional...

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Differences in Slovenian NUTS 3 regions and functional regions by gender

Drobne, Samo - In: Business Systems Research (BSR) 12 (2021) 1, pp. 45-59

Background: Regions at the level of NUTS 3, which is a system used in the EU for various analyses and statistical reports, can be defined as functional regions in terms of labour markets, education areas, and supply markets. Objectives: This study analyses the functional regions of Slovenia,...

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Additive decompositions with interaction effects

Biewen, Martin - 2012

This paper proposes a comprehensive, path-independent decomposition formula of changes into ceteris paribus effects and interaction effects. The formula implies a reassessment of sequential decomposition methods that are widely used in the literature and that are restrictive in how they treat...

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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be … give new direction to the neighbourhood effects debate. The ten challenges are: 1) Future work should concentrate on … explaining what is in the black-box of the 'neighbourhood effect' by deriving and testing clear hypotheses on causal …

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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the...

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Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty in Sweden: An innovative analysis of individual neighbourhood histories

van Ham, Maarten; Hedman, Lina; Manley, David; Coulter, Rory - 2012

intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing upon the concept of a neighbourhood biography, this study contends that there … are links between the places individuals live in with their parents and their subsequent neighbourhood experiences as … neighbourhoods, this study is the first to use innovative sequencing techniques to construct individual neighbourhood histories …

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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the GSOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment prospects. The panel setup and richness of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282292