Residential segregation and unemplyment: the case of Brussels

Claire Dujardin, Harris Selod and Isabelle Thomas

Research Unit Working Papers from Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA

Abstract: This paper investigates the causal effects of the spatial organization of Brussels on unemployment propensities. Using Census data at the individual level, we estimate the unemployment probability of young adults while taking into account personal, household and neighbourhood characteristics. We solve the endogeneity of residential locations by restricting our sample to young adults residing with their parents, and evaluate the potential remaining bias by conducting a sensitivity analysis. Our results suggest that residing in a deprived neighbourhood significantly increases a youngster probability of being unemployed, a result which is quite robust to the presence of both observed and unobserved parental covariates.

Keywords: neighbourhood effects; residential segregation; unemployment; endogeneity bias; sensitivity analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2007-03
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