Immigration and the pursuit of amenities
研究发现，美国移民倾向于聚集在名义工资高但实际工资低的大都市区，他们为获得沿海、更大、移民网络更深的城市而接受较低实际工资，并偏好与母国气候、安全、沿海特征相似的城市。
Abstract Immigrants to the United States live disproportionately in metropolitan areas where nominal wages are high, but real wages are low. This sorting behavior may be due to preferences toward certain quality‐of‐life amenities. Relative to U.S.‐born inter‐state migrants, immigrants accept lower real wages to locate in cities that are coastal, larger, and offer deeper immigrant networks. They sort toward cities that are hillier and also larger and networked. Immigrants come more from coastal, cloudy, and safer countries—conditional on income and distance. They choose cities that resemble their origin in terms of winter temperature, safety, and coastal proximity.