Public housing magnets: public housing supply and immigrants’ location choices
研究了法国1970年代一项允许有子女移民申请公共住房的改革如何影响他们最初在地方劳动力市场的选址，发现公共住房供给多的城市对这类移民有强大吸引力，效应与族群规模相当。
This article investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large ‘magnetic effect’ on the location choice of new immigrants with children. The estimated effect is substantial and quantitatively similar to the effect of the size of the ethnic group in the urban area. In cities with higher public housing supply, these immigrants tend to benefit from better housing conditions, but non-European immigrants are also more likely to be unemployed.