Economics Seminar（2015-12）

Topic: Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences in Spain: New Ghettos?

Speaker: Albert Saiz
Affiliation:MIT
Time: Friday, June 5 from 1:00-2:30pm
Location: Room 217, Guanghua Building 2

Abstract:
International migration made the Spanish population grow by 10 percent between 1998 and 2008. This paper studies where migrants settled and how natives reacted to such a huge and rapid in ow, the largest and fastest migration-induced increase in the OECD. Our results show the existence of two types of neighborhoods in metro areas: city centers where immigrants clearly displaced natives and suburbs into which both natives and immigrants located. The resulting average segregation levels in Spain mask vast di erences across neighborhoods and immigrant nationalities.

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