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Title: | Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Enclaves |
Authors: | Bosch, Mariano; Carnero, María Ángeles; Farré, Lídia CSIC | Issue Date: | 2011 | Publisher: | Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Citation: | IZA Discussion Paper No. 5583 | Abstract: | We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market prevents the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartment in different areas of the two largest Spanish cities, Madrid and Barcelona. We send emails showing interest in the apartments and signal the applicants' ethnicity by using native and foreign-sounding names. We find that, in line with previous studies, immigrants face a differential treatment when trying to rent an apartment. We also find that this negative treatment varies considerably according to the concentration of immigrants in the area. In neighborhoods with a low presence of immigrants the response rate is 30 percentage points lower for immigrants than for natives, while this differential disappears when the immigration share reaches 50%. We conclude that discriminatory practices can perpetuate the ethnic spatial segregation observed in large cities. | Description: | JEL Classification: J15, J61.-- Trabajo presentado a la "Norface Conference on Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge" celebrada en Londres en 2011. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/58948 |
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