This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It … shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of … the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined, which is crucial for understanding the dynamics of segregation …

We examine the residential segregation of workers and the unemployed in the 80 largest cities in Germany. Drawing on a … unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … rise of segregation was characterized by a third phenomenon: a trend towards "localization", i.e., a tendency of workers …

Previous research consistently finds that racially-based residential segregation is associated with poor economic …, health, and social outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between residential segregation and … estimating ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of happiness on a measure of MSA-level segregation, controlling for a rich …

of "visible minorities" increased dramatically and residential segregation increased very considerably. We find a …

that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, but that residential segregation has … remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing integration of immigrants in … their host society and having a negative impact on people's lives. Segregation research often focuses on residential …

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using … segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian …

segregation by undertaking a comparative study North and South European cities. Our main finding shows that during the last global … economic cycle from the 1980s through the 2000s, both levels of social inequalities and socio-economic segregation have grown …. However, the effects of rising levels of inequality affect levels of segregation with a strong time lag. This reminds us that …

segregation. In contexts where large ethnic minority arrivals spur the creation of new neighborhoods, conventional empirical …