Who welcomes them? Determinants of the spatial distribution of asylum seekers in Italy

Fratesi, Ugo; Percoco, Marco; Proietti, Paola

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1525487

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“…The empirical literature on how local communities regard the reception of asylum seekers is fragmented. Some studies have highlighted the existence of mixed attitudes, for example, humanitarianism and opposition (Fratesi et al, 2019;Hangartner et al, 2018;Zorlu, 2017). Others have investigated the effect of the inflow of asylum seekers and refugees on electoral outcomes (Bratti et al, 2017;Dennison et al, 2017;Dustmann et al, 2016;Otto and Steinhardt, 2014;Steinmayr, 2016;Witteveen, 2017).…”

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The effect of asylum seeker reception centers on nearby house prices: Evidence from The Netherlands

Daams

Proietti

Veneri

2019

Journal of Housing Economics

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With 20,945 asylum applications in 2016, the Netherlands received the tenth highest number of asylum requests in Europe. From the time of their arrival, and until a decision on their asylum requests is made, asylum seekers are sheltered in asylum seeker reception centers (ASRCs) across the country. This paper tests whether the opening of reception centers affects the prices of nearby houses. In doing so, likely differential effects across urban and non-urban areas, as well as for ASRCs of distinct capacities to host asylum seekers, are considered. The analysis uses hedonic regressions that are based on a staggered difference-in-differences design. Estimation comes from 2009-2017 information on the transaction prices of houses (N = 347,479) and the locations and opening dates of nearby ASRCs (N = 75). The results indicate that the opening of ASRCs causes the prices of some houses to fall by approximately 9.3%. However, this estimated effect pertains solely to single-family houses in less densely populated areas and for ASRC of high hosting capacity, whereas in cities no economically or statistically significant effects are found. The findings of this study have implications for the design of public policies that regard the spatial dispersion of ASRCs. 'stated preferences', see for example Facchini et al. (2016), Grigorieff et al. (2017), or Hopkins et al. (2018, which may allow socially acceptable answers to impact findings. Unlike such studies, we consider preferences that are revealed in local housing markets. To our

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The effect of asylum seeker reception centers on nearby house prices: Evidence from The Netherlands

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Proietti

Veneri

2019

Journal of Housing Economics

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“…As a final economic variable, bilateral disparity in social capital is used (Putnam, 1995). The social capital indices were obtained from the study by Cartocci (2007), also used by Fratesi et al (2019). This index is calculated by aggregating various related indicators.…”

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Economic resilience and regionally differentiated cycles: Evidence from a turning point approach in Italy

Duran

Fratesi

2023

Papers in Regional Science

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The literature on regional resilience often neglects the timing of recessions and simply uses national cycles.Region-specific cycles and turning points might bias the results, however, and affect the choice of regions to target with policies. This paper investigates the geography and determinants of regional resilience with a regional turning point approach, using data for Italy, a country with a wellknown and sizeable regional divide. The results show that the timing of regional cycles varies substantially and that the detected resilience determinants are different across the two approaches, implying that the policy levers may be wrongly estimated with national turning points.

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“…The refugee reception system has relevant socioeconomic effects in Italy. Evidence shows that it influences social capital of the receiving communities (Fratesi et al 2019). Other works find significant effects of the Italian geography refugee on voting, although with mixed results (Bratti et al 2020;Campo et al 2021;Gamalerio et al 2022).…”

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Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy

Denti,

Faggian

2023

Ann Reg Sci

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Which are the effects of hosting refugees on hate events, the most extreme acts against minorities? While growing research considers the link between refugees and voting behaviors, little is known about the influence of refugee reception on radicalization of anti-immigrant attitudes. Exploiting a novel database on geotagged hate events in Italy and the geography of refugee hosting centers, this paper provides novel evidence on the effect of exposure to refugees on hate in Italian provinces. Using instrumental variable estimation, we show that provinces with bigger refugee hosting capacity experienced higher incidence of hate.

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Who welcomes them? Determinants of the spatial distribution of asylum seekers in Italy

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

The effect of asylum seeker reception centers on nearby house prices: Evidence from The Netherlands

The effect of asylum seeker reception centers on nearby house prices: Evidence from The Netherlands

Economic resilience and regionally differentiated cycles: Evidence from a turning point approach in Italy

Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy

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