期刊名称：HIER Discussion Paper Series / Harvard Institute of Economic Research
出版年度：2005
卷号：2005
出版社：Harvard Institute of Economic Research
摘要：This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation
in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in
the first half of the century, but has been rising steadily over the past three
decades. Analysis of restricted access 1990 Census microdata suggests that this
rise would be even more striking if the native-born children of immigrants could
be consistently excluded from the analysis. We analyze panel and cross-sectional
variation in immigrant segregation, as well as housing price patterns across
metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation.
Immigration itself has surged in recent decades, but the tendency for newly
arrived immigrants to be younger and of lower socioeconomic status explains very
little of the recent rise in immigrant segregation. We also find little evidence
of increased nativism in the housing market. Evidence instead points to changes
in urban form, manifested in particular as native-driven suburbanization and the
decline of public transit as a transportation mode, as a central explanation for
the new immigrant segregation.
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