This paper deals with the question of whether migrants pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable quality and neighborhood characteristics. We use a two-step selection-correction model augmented by a control function to account for nonrandom neighborhood choice. The estimation sample is a uniquely assembled panel comprising the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), information on household and apartment characteristics, as well as georeferenced data describing neighborhood quality. Our estimates reveal that people with migration backgrounds are not penalized in the German local rental market in terms of higher rental payments.

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德国的租金价格：移民和本地人之间的比较

本文探讨了移民是否为质量和邻里特征相当的公寓支付租金溢价的问题。我们使用由控制函数增强的两步选择校正模型来解释非随机邻域选择。估计样本是一个独特组装的面板，包括社会经济面板 (SOEP)、有关家庭和公寓特征的信息以及描述社区质量的地理参考数据。我们的估计表明，具有移民背景的人在德国本地租赁市场中不会因更高的租金支付而受到惩罚。