Now and Forever? Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants

Åslund, Olof

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“…First, to satisfy the exclusion restriction, of network eects. This is strongly supported by existing empirical evidence on the tendency of newly-arrived immigrants to cluster in areas with large density of immigrants from the same country (Aslund (2005) and 16 See for instance table A.2 of the Appendix. 17 In the Data section we describe in greater detail both the data used for the implementation of the instrument and the sample of selected immigrants.…”

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Immigrants, domestic labor and women's retirement decisions

Peri

Romiti²,

Rossi

2015

Labour Economics

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This paper estimates the eect of immigrants on the women-men gap in retirement and working decisions. We focus on the eect that operates through immigrants' supply of domestic labor, which substitutes women's household services especially in the care of elderly parents. We use a dataset of Italian households that contains information on planned retirement age, labor supply and family structure for a representative sample in the years [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. A double dierence identication approach exploits the women-men dierences between families with and without old parents, interacted with the supply of immigrants in the local labor market. We nd that an increase of immigrants by one percentage point of the local population is associated with an increase in the planned retirement age gap between women and men by 0.45 years if they had a living parent over 80. Such dierential was instead only 0.17 if the household had no living old parent. The eect found is stronger for poor or less educated women and particularly correlated with the inow of Eastern European female immigrants, the group supplying the largest share of labor for domestic care.

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Immigrants, domestic labor and women's retirement decisions

Peri

Romiti²,

Rossi

2015

Labour Economics

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“…Being an immigrant is also associated with shorter distances between generations, at least if both generations live in the same host country. The family of origin often constitutes the main support network for migrants, it is frequently responsible to help find a first location upon arrival (Bartel 1989, Borjas 1998, Zavodny 1998, Aslund 2005. In addition, solidarity norms in specific non-western groups are stronger than in the native Dutch population (Abraham 1996, Yerden 2000.…”

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Geographical distances between adult children and their parents in the Netherlands

Michielin

Mulder

2007

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“…Immigrants strongly rely on local networks of relatives and friends from their country of origin that often constitute the only sources of support (Aslund 2005). Therefore, immigrants" offspring should frequently move to locations within the same local community.…”

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How far do children move? Spatial distances after leaving the parental home

Leopold

Geißler

Sebastian

2012

Social Science Research

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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. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. AbstractLittle is known about how far young adults move when they leave their parental home initially.We addressed this question using data from ten waves (2000 -2009) of the German Socioeconomic Panel Study on spatial distances calculated by the geo-coordinates of residential moves (N = 1,425). Linear regression models predicted young adults" moving distance by factors at the individual, family, household, and community level. Overall, spatial distances of initial moveouts were strikingly small with a median value of only 9.5 kilometers. Those who were welleducated, female, single, childless, had highly educated fathers and high parental household incomes moved across greater distances. The effect of young adults" education was moderated by the local community"s degree of urbanization, supporting the brain drain assertion. In line with developmental models of migration, our results further show that young adults stayed closer if the parental household was still located at their place of childhood. We found two interactions with gender: At the family level, daughters stayed closer when leaving a single-parent household. At the community level, women from Eastern Germany moved farther, suggesting that the surplus of men in the Eastern periphery is at least to some extent an outcome of initial migration decisions.2

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Now and Forever? Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants

Cited by 35 publications

References 25 publications

Immigrants, domestic labor and women's retirement decisions

Immigrants, domestic labor and women's retirement decisions

Geographical distances between adult children and their parents in the Netherlands

How far do children move? Spatial distances after leaving the parental home

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