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Black suburbanization and the evolution of spatial inequality since 1970
Bartik, Alexander W.; Mast, Evan - 2021
declines. Second, suburbanization accounts for over half of the increase in within-Black income segregation. Selective Black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660570
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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America
Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023
This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540625
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Residential Segregation : The Role of Inequality and Housing Subsidies
Harting, Philipp - 2018
Residential segregation is a key public policy issue that is driven by economic factors on the one side, and individual … residential segregation patterns that occur when households make their neighborhood choice by taking economic and diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917295
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Spatial-ethnic inequalities : the role of location in the estimation of ethnic wage differentials
Longhi, Simonetta - 2017
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737506
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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland
Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van; Kauppinen, Timo M. - 2017
residential segregation. However, we were not able to completely explain the differences between native-born Finns and immigrants … to differences in immigration history and levels of ethnic segregation. Therefore, the local context matters for spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737509
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Geographies of socio-economic inequality
Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022
presentation of the vicious circle of the segregation model and suggest some ways in which this vicious circle of spatial … inequality and segregation can be broken. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170243
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Trust, racial fragmentation and income inequality : new evidence from the US
Tesei, Andrea - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260009
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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? : evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
socio-economic status in different inequality and segregation contexts in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands … the UK, which has long had high levels of social inequalities and high levels of socio-economic segregation, we find that … of the most liberal and market oriented countries, we find high levels of mobility, but these reproduce segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758269
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What Explains Neighborhood Sorting by Income and Race?
Aliprantis, Dionissi - 2019
Why do high-income black households live in neighborhoods with characteristics similar to those of low-income white households? We find that neighborhood sorting by income and race cannot be explained by financial constraints: High-income, high-wealth black households live in similar-quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899042
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325256