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Residential Mobility and Unemployment of African Immigrants in France: A Calibration Approach

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  • Bruno Decreuse
  • Benoît Schmutz

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We build and calibrate a model of simultaneous transitions on the housing and the labor market in order to account for the residual unemployment gap between African immigrants and non-immigrants in France. Our framework allows us to distinguish between the impact of ethnic-specific geographic preferences and ethnic-specific barriers to these two markets. The labor market accounts for about 85% of the residual unemployment gap, whereas the housing market accounts for about 75% of the ethnic differences in geographic location. Geographic preferences do not substantially impact the unemployment gap and account for about 25% of differences in residential location.

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  • Bruno Decreuse & Benoît Schmutz, 2012. "Residential Mobility and Unemployment of African Immigrants in France: A Calibration Approach," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 107-108, pages 51-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2012:i:107-108:p:51-91
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    1. Combes, Pierre-Philippe & Decreuse, Bruno & Schmutz, Benoît & Trannoy, Alain, 2018. "Neighbor discrimination theory and evidence from the French rental market," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 104-123.
    2. Gobillon, Laurent & Rupert, Peter & Wasmer, Etienne, 2014. "Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 108-120.
    3. Gregory Verdugo, 2016. "Public housing magnets: public housing supply and immigrants’ location choices," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 16(1), pages 237-265.
    4. Picard, Pierre M. & Zenou, Yves, 2018. "Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 77-93.
    5. Pierre-Philippe Combes & Bruno Decreuse & Benoît Schmutz & Alain Trannoy, 2010. "The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market," IDEP Working Papers 1003, Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France, revised Jun 2010.
    6. Michel Dimou & Samuel Ettouati & Alexandra Schaffar, 2020. "From dusk till dawn: the residential mobility and location preferences of immigrants in France," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 65(2), pages 253-280, October.
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    8. Alexandra SCHAFFAR, 2020. "Introduction - Les questions soulevées en économie des migrations," Region et Developpement, Region et Developpement, LEAD, Universite du Sud - Toulon Var, vol. 51, pages 5-16.
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    10. Florence ARESTOFF & El Mouhoub MOUHOUD, 2020. "La mobilité résidentielle des immigrés et de leurs descendants en France : une approche sur données individuelles," Region et Developpement, Region et Developpement, LEAD, Universite du Sud - Toulon Var, vol. 51, pages 65-85.
    11. Florence Arestoff & El Mouhoub Mouhoud, 2020. "La mobilité résidentielle des immigrés et de leurs descendants en France : une approche sur données individuelles," Post-Print hal-03119805, HAL.
    12. Benoît Schmutz, 2015. "Spatial sorting of African Immigrants in the French Public Housing Market," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 42(3), pages 247-270, September.
    13. Combes, Pierre-Philippe & Decreuse, Bruno & Schmutz, Benoît & Trannoy, Alain, 2018. "Neighbor discrimination theory and evidence from the French rental market," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 104-123.

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