Gaining Access to Housing in Germany: The Foreign-minority Experience

Drever, Anita I.; Clark, William A. V.

doi:10.1080/0042098022000027040

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“…Ethnic minorities have shown to live in relatively smaller apartments, to pay higher rents per square metre, and also to live more likely in segregated poor-quality neighbourhoods (for literature on Europe see e.g. Drever and Clark 2002;Harrison, Law, and Philipps 2005; for the U.S. e.g. Cort 2011;Krivo 1995).…”

Section: Background and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Closed doors everywhere? A meta-analysis of field experiments on ethnic discrimination in rental housing markets

Auspurg

Schneck

Hinz

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

159

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Discrimination is long seen as a meaningful factor for ethnic inequalities on rental housing markets. Yet empirically, the extent of discrimination is still debatable. For the first time, this article provides a quantitative meta-analysis of field experiments (in person audits and correspondence tests) that were run over the last four decades in the United States, Canada and Europe (N = 71). Special focus is given to a possible inflation of effect sizes by publication bias; to time trends; and to evidence for statistical discrimination. Taken together, nearly all experiments document the occurrence of ethnic discrimination. Effect sizes are inflated by publication bias, but there is still substantial evidence left once the bias is removed. The analysis reveals a consistent decline in the extent of discrimination over time, from moderate levels of discrimination in the 1970s and 1980s, up to only small but still statistically significant levels in the 1990s and 2000s. A significant part of the discriminatory behaviour can be attributed to missing information about the social status of applicants, which supports theories on statistical discrimination. It is discussed how future research could move our knowledge on the underlying mechanisms forward.

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Section: Background and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Closed doors everywhere? A meta-analysis of field experiments on ethnic discrimination in rental housing markets

Auspurg

Schneck

Hinz

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

159

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“…The few existing studies in this field that use German data have analyzed homeownership determinants for native Germans (Clark et al, 1997) and have examined the housing quality gap between immigrants and natives (Drever and Clark, 2002). However, with the exception of Sinning (2006), scant attention has been paid to the question of immigrant homeownership in Germany.…”

Section: Homeownership Determinantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

2009

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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a two-dimensional model of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both origin and host cultures. The evidence suggests that immigrants with a stronger commitment to the host country are more likely to achieve homeownership for a given set of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, regardless of their level of attachment to their home country.JEL Classification: R21, F22, J15, Z10

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“…As foreigners living in Germany were oversampled in the survey and because their housing situation has been shown to be different from Geman born persons, 30 immigrant status was included.…”

Section: Demographic Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%