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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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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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Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger...
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This paper identifies racial neighborhood effects at the transaction level. By matching two large micro-datasets (ZTRAX and HMDA) for the state of Virginia, we pin down the impact of a marginal change of racial composition in a neighborhood by looking at price impacts for transactions that...
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Traditional urban policy focuses mainly on redevelopment measures. Germany's Social City programme incorporates urban regeneration with support to local communities in deprived neighbourhoods. We use microdata on household characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and microdata...
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Does the labeling of neighborhoods affect their outcomes? Place-based policies targeting disadvantaged areas aim to improve their conditions, but the labels they impose carry consequences of their own. In this paper, we examine Denmark's Ghetto Plan which designated public housing areas with a...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389152
preferences, or by other neighbourhood or housing market factors. By using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands, this … study contributes to the literature on neighbourhood selection by ethnic minorities in two ways. First, it distinguishes … found to be important in explaining neighbourhood selection. There are, however, differences between ethnic minority groups …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356072
little attention so far is that some residents will have a desire to leave their neighbourhood, but are unable to do so. The … neighbourhood are actually successful, and to which neighbourhoods they move. A more thorough insight in who wants to leave which … are less likely to realise a desire to leave their neighbourhood and that if they succeed in moving from an ethnic …
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