The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark

Eckert, Fabian; Hejlesen, Mads; Walsh, Conor

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2022.103454

“…The advantages of agglomeration economies are most pronounced in urban areas and, in the case of refugees, are likely to be compounded by the presence of co-nationals which may enhance both the willingness and capacity to economically integrate (Cole et al, 2023). Eckert et al (2022) indeed demonstrate that refugees who resettled in Copenhagen experienced 35% faster wage growth for each additional year of experience between 1986 and 1998, surpassing the wage growth of refugees settled in other regions of Denmark. Refugees may therefore see the ONA as an additional tool to help them relocate and to search for better jobs in urban areas.…”

Section: Job Stability -Geographymentioning

confidence: 80%

Refugees’ Economic Integration and Firms

Cole,

Jabbour,

Ozgen

et al. 2024

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“…Research on these disparities has commonly focused attention on a particular subgroup of locations that is seen to be increasingly being 'left behind' by the highest performing local economies (Kemeny & Storper, 2020). Studies show that spatial income disparities between these and other locations are linked to place-based gaps in job insecurity and joblessness (Austin et al, 2018;Tomlinson, 2016); career advancement (Eckert et al, 2022); race-based exclusion (Sitaraman et al, 2020); health (Case & Deaton, 2020;Singh et al, 2017), and especially cultural and political polarization and the rise of populist politics (Abreu & Öner, 2020;Cramer, 2016;Dijkstra et al, 2020;Hendrickson et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2018;McCann, 2020;Rodríguez-Pose, 2018). Yet, despite this growing attention, we remain at an early stage in terms of how we understand left behind places and what is happening to the people within them (MacKinnon et al, 2022).…”

Section: Contributions To Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Who gets left behind by left behind places?

Connor,

Berg,

Kemeny

et al. 2023

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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We document that children growing up in places left behind by today’s economy experience lower levels of social mobility as adults. Using a longitudinal database that tracks over 20,000 places in the USA from 1980 to 2018, we identify two kinds of left behind places: the ‘long-term left behind’ that have struggled over long periods of history; and ‘recently left-behind’ places where conditions have deteriorated. Compared to children of similar baseline household income levels, we find that exposure to left behind places is associated with a 4-percentile reduction in adult income rank. Children fare considerably better when exposed to places where conditions are improving. These outcomes vary across prominent social and spatial categories and are compounded when nearby places are also experiencing hardship. Based on these findings, we argue that left behind places are having ‘scarring effects’ on children that could manifest long into the future, exacerbating the intergenerational challenges faced by low-income households and communities. Improvements in local economic conditions and outmigration to more prosperous places are, therefore, unlikely to be full remedies for the problems created by left behind places.

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“…Research on these disparities has commonly focused attention on a particular subgroup of locations that is seen to be increasingly being 'left behind' by the highest performing local economies (Kemeny & Storper, 2020). Studies show that spatial income disparities between these and other locations are linked to place-based gaps in job insecurity and joblessness (Austin et al, 2018;Tomlinson, 2016); career advancement (Eckert et al, 2022); race-based exclusion (Sitaraman et al, 2020); health (Case & Deaton, 2020;Singh et al, 2017), and especially cultural and political polarization and the rise of populist politics (Abreu & Öner, 2020;Cramer, 2016;Dijkstra et al, 2020;Hendrickson et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2018;McCann, 2020;Rodríguez-Pose, 2018). Yet, despite this growing attention, we remain at an early stage in terms of how we understand left behind places and what is happening to the people within them (MacKinnon et al, 2022).…”

Section: Contributions To Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Who gets left behind by left behind places?

Connor¹,

Berg²,

Kemeny³

et al. 2023

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We document that children growing up in places left behind by today’s economy experience lower levels of social mobility as adults. Using a longitudinal database that tracks over 20,000 places in the United States from 1980 to 2018, we identify two kinds of left behind places: the ‘long-term left behind’ that have struggled over long periods of history; and ‘recently left-behind’ places where conditions have deteriorated. Compared to children of similar baseline household income levels, we find that exposure to left behind places is associated with a 4-percentile reduction in adult income rank. Children fare considerably better when exposed to places where conditions are improving. These outcomes vary across prominent social and spatial categories, and are compounded when nearby places are also experiencing hardship. Based on these findings, we argue that left behind places are having “scarring effects” on children that could manifest long into the future, exacerbating the intergenerational challenges faced by low-income households and communities. Improvements in local economic conditions and outmigration to more prosperous places are, therefore, unlikely to be full remedies for the problems created by left behind places.

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The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark

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