Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87338 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 12-024/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of home owners. We distinguish between the effects of interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of heterogeneous home owners while controlling for interactions between the labor and housing market. We find that an increase in the cultural diversity of the population positively impacts equilibrium wages and housing prices, particularly in the largest and most densely populated cities. This result is largely driven by spatial sorting of individuals in both the labor and housing market. After controlling for home owner heterogeneity we find that increasing cultural diversity no longer impacts local labor markets and negatively impacts local housing markets. The latter result is likely to be driven by a negative causal effect of increased cultural diversity on neighb orhood quality that outweighs a positive effect of increased cultural diversity in consumption goods.
Subjects: 
cultural diversity
immigrants
local amenities
sorting
housing prices
productivity
JEL: 
J31
R21
R23
R31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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