Neighbourhood Ethnic Composition and Employment Effects on Immigrant Incomes
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Neighbourhood Ethnic Composition and Employment Effects on Immigrant Incomes
Currently in many Western countries there are concerns that clustering of ethnic minorities in certain parts of cities will negatively affect integration processes. Scholarly theory and evidence on this point is mixed, however. We use Swedish data and conduct a panel analysis quantifying the degree to which the ethnic composition of the neighbourhood affects the subsequent labour income of indi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1369-183X,1469-9451
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2013.830503