Where Do the New U.S. Immigrants Live?

Bartel, Ann P.

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“…Consistency of the first differences estimator in equation (2) Previous studies in the immigration and wage literature have recognized immigrants' tendencies to settle in ethnic clusters (Bartel 1989), and used it to predict current period inflows of new immigrants (i.e. Altonji andCard 1991, Card 2001).…”

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“…Following Altonji and Card (1991) and Card (2001) this paper instruments for the actual change in the number of immigrants with a prediction thereof based on ethnic differences in settlement patterns (Bartel 1989). The prediction exploits geographic and ethnic dispersion in the distribution of immigrants across counties as well as the changing ethnic composition of immigrants.…”

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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Crime

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2013

American Law and Economics Review

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Since the 1960s both crime rates and the share of immigrants among the American population have more than doubled. Almost three quarters of Americans believe immigration increases crime, yet existing academic research has shown no such effect. Using panel data on US counties from 1980 to 2000, this paper presents empirical evidence on a systematic and economically meaningful impact of immigration on crime. Consistent with the economic model of crime this effect is strongest for crimes motivated by financial gain, such as motor vehicle theft and robbery. Moreover, the effect is only present for those immigrants most likely to have poor labor market outcomes. Failure to account for the cost of increased crime would overstate the "immigration surplus" substantially, but would most likely not reverse its sign.

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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Crime

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2013

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“…Enclaves may confer benefits such as informational or social networks (Chiswick and Miller, 2005;Bartel, 1989). Such informational networks may contribute to the structural environment in that culturally appropriate foods may be more available.…”

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“…That is, while segregation among the U.S. born is indicative of concentrated poverty and marginalization of racial minorities, the segregation of immigrants, in contrast, results in the concentration and maintenance of positive health behaviors and cultural and social support that are indicative of relatively healthy immigrant populations-particularly of Hispanic origin. However, the literature relating diet, physical activity and weight to neighborhood characteristics has not addressed the residential context of immigrants (Bartel, 1989).…”

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Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

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Economics & Human Biology

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A growing body of literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and health outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood context and body mass index (BMI) or whether the association between neighborhood context and BMI differs by ethnicity. This paper investigates several neighborhood characteristics as potential explanatory factors for the variation of BMI across the United States; further, this paper explores to what extent segregation and the concentration of disadvantage across neighborhoods help explain ethnic disparities in BMI. Using data geo-coded at the census tract-level and linked with individual-level data from the Third National Health and Examination Survey in the United States (U.S.), we find significant variation in BMI across U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, neighborhood characteristics have a significant association with body mass and partially explain ethnic disparities in BMI, net of individual-level adjustments. These data also reveal evidence that ethnic enclaves are not in fact advantageous for the body mass index of Hispanics-a relationship counter to what has been documented for other health outcomes.

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“…3 In addition to the fact that high quality data on aggregate migration are scarce, estimated migration functions often lack an explicit micro-foundation (Clark et Mayda, 2010). 4 To the extent that they do have a micro-foundation (Beine et al, 2011,2012; Beine & Salomone, forthcoming), they hinge on two strong assumptions. The first is the so-called independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assumption.…”

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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

2013

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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 University of Tübingen ANNE STEINBACHER ♯ University of Tübingen May 2012Abstract This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly acknowledge similarities among final migration destinations and thus partly relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption. We strengthen our causal interpretation by controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity in bilateral migration costs, and by adopting an instrumental variables approach. Our results suggest that previous estimates of the scale effect are upward-biased by approximately 50%.

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Where Do the New U.S. Immigrants Live?

Cited by 606 publications

References 12 publications

Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Crime

Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Crime

Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

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