Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France

Claire Dujardin and Florence Goffette-Nagot ()
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Florence Goffette-Nagot: GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENS LSH - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper is aimed to examine how individual unemployment is influenced both by location in a deprived neighborhood and public housing. Our identification strategy is twofold. First, because we estimate a simultaneous probit model of public housing accommodation, type of neighborhood, and unemployment, the formal identification of the model relies on non-linearities. Second, we take advantage of the location of the public housing sector in France, which allows us to use public housing accommodation as a powerful determinant of neighborhood choices. Our results show that public housing does not have any direct effect on unemployment. However, living within the 35% more deprived neighborhoods does increase the unemployment probability significantly. As expected, the effect of neighborhood substantially decreases when dealing with the endogeneity of neighborhood and when using public housing as a determinant of neighborhood choice.

Keywords: full information maximum likehood; neighborhood effects; public housing; simultaneous probit models; unemployment; chômage; effets de voisinage; logement social; maximum de vraisemblance à information complète; modèle probit simultané (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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Published in 2005

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Working Paper: Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France (2006)
Working Paper: Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France (2006)
Working Paper: Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France (2006)
Working Paper: Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France (2006)
Working Paper: Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France (2006)
Working Paper: Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France (2005)
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