This paper provides an original analysis on residential mobility and locational choices of immigrants in France by using a unique database containing individual characteristics for 19 million French inhabitants in 2014. Residential mobility is studied at the level of the 304 metropolitan zones d’emploi, which is a very narrow spatial level of analysis taking into account worker’s commutes, local productive specializations and the spatial dimensions of the local labor markets. The paper shows, first, that when living in a zone with a high proportion of immigrants, an immigrant is less eager to move elsewhere. Second, the location decisions of settled immigrants who relocate do not exhibit path dependence: the immigrants do not move to zones where other immigrants cluster. The paper also provides evidence that newcomers tend to locate to areas with low real estate prices and a high percentage of immigrant households within the local population. This is an original study of the locational behavior of migrants based on ethnic origin; it shows that the presence of other immigrants with the same or different ethnic origin affects the location decision of newcomers.

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从黄昏到黎明：法国移民的居住区流动性和位置偏好

本文通过使用包含2014年1900万法国居民个体特征的独特数据库，对法国的居民流动性和地理位置选择进行了原始分析。研究了304个大都市区的居民流动性，这是一个非常狭窄的空间分析水平，其中考虑了工人的通勤，本地生产专业化知识和本地劳动力市场的空间维度。该论文首先表明，当居住在移民比例高的地区时，移民就不急于迁移到其他地方。其次，移居的定居移民的选址决定不表现出路径依赖性：移民不会迁移到其他移民聚集的区域。该论文还提供了证据，表明新移民倾向于将房屋定位在房地产价格低廉和当地人口中移民家庭比例较高的地区。这是对基于种族出身的移民的位置行为的原始研究；