Don't Stand so Close to Me: The Urban Impact of Immigration

Accetturo, Antonio; Manaresi, Francesco; Mocetti, Sauro; Olivieri, Elisabetta

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“…Accetturo et al . () find evidence that immigration increases prices overall, but that these effects might differ between city quarters. The paper that is most closely related to this one is Sá () who also looks at the United Kingdom.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Second, immigration might lead to an outflow of natives (see, e.g ., Borjas, Freeman and Katz , Card , Borjas , Accetturo et al . ). This outflow might be to other areas within the same city and has been explained by immigration having an effect on natives’ amenities (Accetturo et al .…”

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confidence: 97%

“…This outflow might be to other areas within the same city and has been explained by immigration having an effect on natives’ amenities (Accetturo et al . ). If this is the case, immigration into an area might actually decrease the local population, leading potentially to a decrease in the demand for housing, although the impact on the city level is more ambiguous.…”

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Immigration and the Property Market: Evidence from England and Wales

Braakmann

2016

Real Estate Economics

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This article investigates the link between immigration and property markets in England and Wales. Evidence from fixed effects and shift-share-based instrumental variable regressions suggests that an increase in regional immigration, depending on the specification, either decreases prices at the lower end of the distribution up to the median or leaves them unchanged and has (almost) no effect on mean property prices or prices above the median. The evidence suggests that these findings can be explained through an interaction between the markets for rented and owned properties as well as through changes in the usage of housing space.

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Immigration and the Property Market: Evidence from England and Wales

Braakmann

2016

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“…These additional results suggest that some of the transmission channels that link globalization shocks to electoral outcomes operate within communities narrower than local labor markets. Such transmission channels are possibly related to the cultural‐identity backlash against multiculturalism, as pointed out by Betz (), Inglehart and Norris (), Margalit (), or the impact of immigration on segregation patterns and housing prices in urban areas, as shown by Accetturo, Manaresi, Mocetti, and Olivieri () for the case of Italy.…”

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Globalization and electoral outcomes: Evidence from Italy

Caselli

Fracasso

Traverso

2019

Economics & Politics

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We study whether and to what extent the electoral dynamics in Italy over the 1994–2008 period can be explained by the development of economic factors associated with globalization. To measure the level of exposure to globalization for local labor markets, our main unit of analysis, we use the intensity of import competition from China and the presence of immigrants. Looking at parties’ political positions and employing an estimation strategy that accounts for endogeneity and time‐invariant unobserved effects across local labor markets, we find that both immigration intensity and exposure to import competition from China have contributed positively to the electoral outcomes of far‐right parties, whereas only immigration intensity has increased the vote shares of right‐wing and traditionalist/authoritarian/nationalist parties. Some evidence, albeit not robust, shows that immigration may have also had a positive impact on far‐left parties, thus possibly further contributing toward political polarization. Moreover, electoral turnout has responded negatively to an increased presence of migrants. While the above effects seem to work through the mediation of labor markets, our results, especially those related to immigration, suggest that other mechanisms at the level of local communities are also at play.

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“…First, research on housing market discrimination showed that the name of the potential renter often predicts the probability of closing a contract. Note that immigrants cannot afford to buy a house and so depend more on the local rental market, which in Southern European countries has typically a rigid supply (Accetturo, Manaresi, Mocetti, & Olivieri, ). Experimental research showed that house owners are less likely to rent to immigrants (Ahmed & Hammarstedt, ; Bosch, Carnero, & Farré, ; Baldini & Federici, ).…”

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Egohoods that segregate. Immigrants, social contexts, and income penalties

Zampatti

Ballarino

Squazzoni

2019

Population Space and Place

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This paper looks at the causal impact of residential segregation on income among migrants in Brescia, a wealthy industrial city of about 200,000 inhabitants in North‐Eastern Italy, where almost one citizen out of five is born abroad. Using a new register‐like dataset including economic and demographic microdata from administrative sources, we geo‐localised each migrant household and created for each individual an “egohood” by imposing buffer circles with the same diameter (250 or 500 m) around his or her residential location. Within this spatial area of reference, we calculated indices of ethnic segregation and exposure to Italian natives, thus measuring the individual network of potential contacts with co‐ethnics and with Italians. Following social networks and social capital theories, we expected ethnic segregation to have a negative impact and exposure to natives to have a positive impact on income and tested our hypotheses with a set of ordinary least squares and two‐stage least squares with instrumental variables regression models. Results showed a robust and negative effect of ethnic segregation on income, whereas a small and positive effect of exposure to natives was not robust to endogeneity checks. We also found substantial heterogeneity among migrant groups defined by macroareas of origin: Exposure to Italians was found to have the expected impact only among migrants coming from Eastern Europe and from the Middle East and North Africa.

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Don't Stand so Close to Me: The Urban Impact of Immigration

Cited by 49 publications

References 113 publications

Immigration and the Property Market: Evidence from England and Wales

Immigration and the Property Market: Evidence from England and Wales

Globalization and electoral outcomes: Evidence from Italy

Egohoods that segregate. Immigrants, social contexts, and income penalties

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