Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin
Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin
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American Economic Association
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English
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We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so, the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable natives. We rationalize this empirical evidence by introducing a quantitative spatial equilibrium model, in which a part of immigrants’ income goes toward consumption i...
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Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin
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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1257_aer_20211241
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1257_aer_20211241
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0002-8282
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1944-7981
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10.1257/aer.20211241
