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Neighbourhood selection of non-Western ethnic minorities : testing the own-group effects hypothesis using a conditional logit model

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Date
26/05/2015
Author
Boschman, S.
Van Ham, Maarten
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
ERC-2013-CoG
Keywords
Segregation
Neighbourhood selection
Ethnicity
Own-group preference
Conditional logit
HT Communities. Classes. Races
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
The selective inflow and outflow of residents of different ethnic groups is the main mechanism behind ethnic residential segregation. In many studies it has been found that ethnic minorities are more likely than others to move to high-ethnic-minority-concentration neighbourhoods. An important question which remains largely unanswered is whether this can be explained by own-group effects, including own-group preferences, or by other neighbourhood factors. We use unique longitudinal register data from the Netherlands, which allow us to distinguish between different ethnic minority groups and simultaneously to take into account multiple neighbourhood characteristics. This allows us to test own-group effects—the effect of the share of the own-ethnic group on neighbourhood selection—while also taking into account other neighbourhood characteristics such as housing market composition. Using a conditional logit model, we find that housing-market constraints can partly explain the moves of ethnic minorities to high-ethnic-minority-concentration neighbourhoods: own-group effects are also found to be important in explaining neighbourhood selection. There are, however, important differences between ethnic minority groups. While these effects together explain why Surinamese and Antilleans move to high-ethnic-minority-concentration neighbourhoods, Turks and Moroccans are still found to move to neighbourhoods with concentrations of minorities other than their own ethnic group.
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Boschman , S & Van Ham , M 2015 , ' Neighbourhood selection of non-Western ethnic minorities : testing the own-group effects hypothesis using a conditional logit model ' , Environment and Planning A , vol. 47 , no. 5 , pp. 1155-1174 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15592300
Publication
Environment and Planning A
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15592300
ISSN
0308-518X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2015 the authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects) and from the Marie Curie programme under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/Career Integration Grant no. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7631

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