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The abstract for paper number 110:
Marco Percoco, Department of Economics
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Immigrants and Discrimination in the Cities
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the spatial mismatch hypothesis and the migration decision. Under the assumption that immigrants are discriminated in both the housing and labor markets It is shown that the presence of segregation can lower the profitability of migration. Some preliminary empirical evidence corroboring the basic assumptions and results of the model is also presented. Finally this paper explains the positive relation between the segregation and the number of immigrants during the Great Black Migration by proving that the function of migration profitability is not globally monotonic and that it can be, under some restrictive conditions, an increasing function of the level of discrimination. Keywords: Spatial Mismatch; Immigation; Urban Structure JEL Classification: J15, J24
Unfortunately full paper has not been submitted.