Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants

Funkhouser, Edward

doi:10.1177/019791830003400206

“…It is remarkable that the concentration of Surinamese, Moroccan, and Turkish immigrants continues in the first few years after arrival, although the tendency does not necessarily persist over a longer period. Evidence from traditional immigration countries indicates a turn after the initial tendency of moving into more segregated areas (FUNKHOUSER, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands

Zorlu¹,

Mulder²

2008

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the NetherlandsAslan Zorlu Clara H. Mulder The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. The initial settlement behaviour and the subsequent mobility of immigrants who arrived in the Netherlands in 1999 are examined using rich administrative individual data. The study considers the settlement patterns of immigrants from various countries of origin who entered the country as labour, family or asylum migrants. The evidence suggests distinct settlement trajectories for asylum and other non-western immigrants. The presence of co-ethnics and members of other ethnic minorities, but also socioeconomic neighbourhood characteristics, appear to play an important role in determining location choice. Differences in the settlement and spatial mobility patterns of immigrants with various degrees of distance from the native Dutch in terms of human and financial capital, proficiency in the relevant language(s), and religion confirm the main predictions of spatial assimilation theory.JEL Classification: F22, J15, R23

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“…20 For this purpose, I use only employed individuals who are not working part-time, with positive recorded income, for whom wage income is the main income source (but predict income and unemployment for all individuals who remain in the sample for the conditional logit analysis). 21 6 Conditional logit estimation results…”

Section: Income and Unemployment Predictionmentioning

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“…In each table, I note which random sample is used. 23 The results of the baseline regressions using the pooled data for natives plus immigrants 21 One may be concerned that individuals might not move to a state at all if they do not have employment secured before they move, but (a) this could be relevant for households as only one member of the household may have secured employment before migrating, and (b) unemployment probabilities are indicators of future probabilities of unemployment, even if an individual is currently employed. 22 The computational problem that prevents me from using the full sample of more than one million individual observations that I used in the probit analysis above is that the data set increases in size by a factor of 17 for the conditional logit estimation, because for each individual the dataset now adds an observation for each state.…”

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Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence From Germany

Schündeln

¹

2013

Journal of Regional Science

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany Matthias Schündeln D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACTAre Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany * Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low mobility of the German population by estimating the unobserved cost of migration. I then focus on the differences between immigrants and natives, and start by presenting reducedform econometric evidence for the hypothesis that immigrants, once they are in the country of destination, are more mobile than natives. Observable, individual-level characteristics can only explain part of this finding. To estimate differences in the responsiveness to labor market characteristics that are due to unobserved characteristics, I then estimate conditional logit models of the migration decision across the German federal states. I find significantly higher responsiveness to labor market differentials in the immigrant population than in the native population. Unobserved moving costs for immigrants are estimated to be only about 37% of this same cost for natives. The findings bear on the assessment of the economic impact of immigration, and the paper contributes to the current immigration-related policy debates that feature prominently in many European countries, and that likely will continue to be important in light of the ongoing EU expansion and the expected resulting east-west migration.JEL Classification: J61, R23

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“…Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants 5 move to less ethnically concentrated areas compared to where they resided initially. Funkhouser (2000) finds that moves out of ethnically concentrated areas occur after many years in the host country.…”

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Now and Forever? Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants

Åslund

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2001

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu W O R K I N G P A P E R 2 0 0 1 : 1 1 Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrantsOlof Åslund Abstract This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual's birth country and large overall immigrant populations. Labor market opportunities affect location decisions, but people also tend to choose localities with many welfare recipients. The impact of most regional factors does not change over time. Thus, there is little evidence that information improves or that preferences differ between initial and subsequent stages.

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Changes in the Geographic Concentration and Location of Residence of Immigrants

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Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands

Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands

Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence From Germany

Now and Forever? Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants

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