TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meier, Sarah
T1  - Housing market integration of migrants moroccans in Spain
JF  - Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie = Journal of economic and social geography
N2  - Moroccans are the largest group of immigrants in Spain. Once they arrive at the new place, one of their first necessities is to access shelter. Focusing on the south-eastern region of Murcia in Spain and combining quantitative and qualitative data, I explore the process of housing market integration of Moroccan migrants. Special attention is paid to the dynamics of this process and the role that the interaction between the supply side and the foreign demand of accommodation plays. Thereby, I will emphasise how an unfavourable structure of the housing market, along with behaviour of local private landlords on the supply side leads to considerable problems concerning the housing market integration of migrants in Spain. Thus, this paper aims to give a more accurate interpretation of the dynamics influencing the housing outcomes of migrants in the studied area.
KW  - Integration
KW  - housing
KW  - Spain
KW  - Moroccans
KW  - housing careers
KW  - immigration
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12006
SN  - 0040-747X
VL  - 104
IS  - 3
SP  - 308
EP  - 321
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borck, Rainald
A1  - Pflüger, Michael
T1  - Green cities? Urbanization, trade, and the environment
JF  - Journal of regional science
N2  - Is urbanization good for the environment? This paper establishes a simple core-periphery model with monocentric cities, which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the impact of the urban evolution on the environment. We focus on global warming and the potential of unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. The model parameters are chosen to match the dichotomy between average "large" and "small" cities in the urban geography of the United States, and the sectoral greenhouse gas emissions recorded for the United States. Based on numerical analyzes we find that a forced switch to a system with equally sized cities reduces total emissions. Second, any city driver which pronounces the asymmetry between the core and the periphery drives up emissions in the total city system, too, and the endogenous adjustment of the urban system accounts for the bulk of the change in emissions. Third, none of the city drivers gives rise to an urban environmental Kuznets curve according to our numerical simulations. Finally, the welfare-maximizing allocation tends to involve dispersion of cities and the more so the higher is the marginal damage from pollution.
KW  - city structure
KW  - city systems
KW  - commuting costs
KW  - environmental Kuznets curve
KW  - environmental pollution
KW  - global warming
KW  - housing
KW  - trade costs
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12423
SN  - 0022-4146
SN  - 1467-9787
VL  - 59
IS  - 4
SP  - 743
EP  - 766
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -