Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands

Aslan Zorlu () and Clara H. Mulder ()
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Clara H. Mulder: University of Groningen

No 3036, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The initial settlement behaviour and the subsequent mobility of immigrants who arrived in the Netherlands in 1999 are examined using rich administrative individual data. The study considers the settlement patterns of immigrants from various countries of origin who entered the country as labour, family or asylum migrants. The evidence suggests distinct settlement trajectories for asylum and other non-western immigrants. The presence of co-ethnics and members of other ethnic minorities, but also socioeconomic neighbourhood characteristics, appear to play an important role in determining location choice. Differences in the settlement and spatial mobility patterns of immigrants with various degrees of distance from the native Dutch in terms of human and financial capital, proficiency in the relevant language(s), and religion confirm the main predictions of spatial assimilation theory.

Keywords: immigrants and ethnic residential segregation; location choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2007-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42 (2), 245-264

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