Immigrants’ Location Preferences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment
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Note: Published as “Determinants of Recent Immigrants’ Location Choices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence”. Journal of Population Economics 2009, 22(1): 145-174
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Keywords
Location Preferences; Internal Migration; Immigrants; Dispersal Policies; Duration Analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- R15 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2005-09-11 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-URE-2005-09-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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