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Aslan Zorlu

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and IZA

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Author

Current position

Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam

Research interest

Economics of migration, microeconometrics, dynamics of ethnic residential segregation, neighborhood effects

Website

https://www.uva.nl/profiel/z/o/a.zorlu/a.zorlu.html?1558342061148

Past positions

Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, WODC (2004–2005); Post-Doc at the Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada, (NIMA); Escola de Economia e Gestão, University of Minho, Portugal (2002–2003); Researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics University of Amsterdam (2002–2002)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam, 2002

Selected publications

  • “Leaving home and destination of early nest leavers: Ethnicity, spaces and prices.” European Journal of Population 32 (2016): 267–291 (with R. Van Gaalen).

  • “Ethnic heterogeneity at neighbourhood level in the Netherlands.” In: Poot, H. J., P. Mulder, and J. Bakens (eds). The Economics of Cultural Diversity. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015; pp. 214–232 (with J. Hartog).

  • “Is education an engine for immigrants’ employment outcome?” British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science 4:10 (2014): 1386–1399.

  • “Ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership.” Journal of Housing Economics (2014) (with C. H. Mulder and R. van Gaalen).

article(s)

  • Immigrants’ occupational mobility—Down and back up again

    The occupational status of most immigrants initially declines but then increases

    Aslan Zorlu, September 2016
    Evidence suggests that immigrants face an initial decline in their occupational status when they enter the host country labor market but that their position improves as they acquire more country-specific human, cultural, and occupational capital. High-skilled immigrants from countries that are economically, linguistically, and culturally different from the host country experience the greatest decline and the steepest subsequent increase in their occupational status. In the context of sharp international competition to attract high-skilled immigrants, this adjustment pattern is contradictory and discourages potential high-skilled migrants.
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