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Immigrants’ Location Preferences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment

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Piil Damm, Anna () (Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business)

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Abstract

This paper exploits a dispersal policy for refugee immigrants to

estimate the importance of local and regional factors for refugees’ location

preferences.

The main results of a mixed proportional hazard competing risks

model are that placed refugees react to high regional unemployment

and lack of a local immigrant population by migrating to large municipalities.

Lack of local fellow countrymen, however, increases the

exit rate to medium-sized as well as large municipalities. This finding

is likely to be a result of the dispersal policy. Finally, refugees react

strongly to assignment to small municipalities by migrating mainly to

medium-sized municipalities.

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Paper provided by University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 05-2.

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Date of creation: 02 Sep 2005
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:aareco:2005_002

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Keywords: Location Preferences; Internal Migration; Immigrants; Dispersal Policies; Duration Analysis;

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J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
R15 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods

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  1. Damm, Anna Piil & Rosholm, Michael, 2003. "Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence," IZA Discussion Papers 925, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  4. Piil Damm, Anna & Rosholm, Michael, 2005. "Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants: Theory," Working Papers 05-1, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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