Are Immigrants' Earnings Influenced by the Characteristics of Their Neighbours?

Musterd, S.; Andersson, Roger; Galster, George; Kauppinen, Timo M.

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“…It is argued that ethnic minority residents prefer to live close to their own ethnic group and therefore select minority-concentration neighbourhoods (Bolt et al, 2008). There has been a lot of research on the advantages of living in an ethnic enclave, which has been found to be especially advantageous for new immigrants and ethnic minorities with low socioeconomic status (Musterd et al, 2008;Phillips, 2007). It is argued that minorities move to ethnic enclaves because they expect benefits from living among coethnics, such as opportunities for employment (Logan et al, 2002;Zorlu and Mulder, 2008); a familiar culture (Logan et al, 2002); family ties (Hedman, 2013); and social support and a sense of security or belonging (Phillips, 2007).…”

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

Boschman

Ham

2015

Environ Plan A

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

Boschman

Ham

2015

Environ Plan A

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“…Living among the own ethnic group is advantageous (Bolt et al, 2008) as co-ethnics can provide opportunities for employment, housing, social security (Logan et al, 2002;Musterd et al, 2008) and a sense of security and belonging (Phillips, 2007). The effect of the neighbourhood ethnic composition on satisfaction will therefore differ between ethnic groups.…”

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Individual differences in the neighbourhood level determinants of residential satisfaction

Boschman

2018

Housing Studies

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a department of sociology, utrecht university, utrecht, the netherlands; b otB-Research for the Built environment, delft university of technology, delft, the netherlands ABSTRACT Residential satisfaction is a key variable in understanding residential mobility. Many researchers have studied the individual level and neighbourhood level determinants of satisfaction, however, very few have studied which neighbourhood characteristics affect satisfaction for whom. In this paper, ordered logit models are estimated, explaining satisfaction from neighbourhood characteristics, personal characteristics and interactions. These interactions test whether neighbourhood characteristics have similar effects on satisfaction for all individuals, or whether individual characteristics affect the size and direction of these effects. Satisfaction is found to be less affected by the share of ethnic minorities for ethnic minorities than for natives, because minorities are more satisfied in neighbourhoods with higher shares of their own ethnic group. Neighbourhood characteristics are found to have a stronger effect on satisfaction for owner-occupiers and parents with children than for others, however the impact of neighbourhood ethnic composition does not vary with tenure or household type.

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“…In a separate study, Musterd et al (2008) focused on the role of ethnic clusters in relation to immigrants' income development. Differences in immigrant economic trajectories have been attributed to a wide variety of factors.…”

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“…It was found that neighborhood income characteristics, operationalized by the percentages of adult males with earnings in the lowest 30 th and the highest 30 th percentiles, hold greater explanatory power for individual earnings than domains of neighborhood mix related to education, ethnicity, or housing tenure. Separating the effects of having substantial shares of low and high-income neighbors, it appeared that it is the presence of the share of low income earners that means most for metropolitan and non-metropolitan men and women, with the largest negative effects for metropolitan men.In a separate study, Musterd et al (2008) focused on the role of ethnic clusters in relation to immigrants' income development. Differences in immigrant economic trajectories have been attributed to a Since there is at least a tendency that immigrants settle in enclaves after arrival, and perhaps a tendency that they are staying there for a longer period of time, it makes sense to ask the question whether a concentration of immigrants aids or retards their chances for improving their economic position?…”

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City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change

Madan

2013

International Planning Studies

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All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owners and the authors of the book. Our appreciation goes to all the contributors to this volume, not only for their research efforts and their commitment to this project, but also for their professional attitude in dealing with editorial guidelines and comments. We are especially grateful to John Mollenkopf, who was willing to write a thoughtful commentary chapter to this volume that, moreover, had to be written in a short time span -between the completion of the various chapters and the start of the production process of this book. John Mollenkopf is not only an internationally acknowledged expert on urban issues, he is also very much acquainted -both as a scholar and a regular visitor -with the Dutch urban context.During the preparation of this book, we were able to count on the valuable support of a number of people at Nicis Institute. Ylva Hendriks, program officer of STIP, has provided valuable assistance in preparing the index and guarding the production process during the summertime. We are also grateful to Dick Meuldijk, who was able to reconcile the editors' wishes with his expert knowledge in producing the map to the introduction of this book, and to Koos van Dijken for providing some statistical information. Finally, we owe a special debt to a number of persons affiliated with Amsterdam University Press. Comments made by its editorial board, in addition to three referees, have definitely improved the book and its chapters. Erik van Aert and Jaap Wagenaar of Amsterdam University Press cannot be thanked enough for supporting this project and for guiding the manuscript through the publication process so patiently and efficiently. This book presents the results of the most recent research on urban topics in the Netherlands. Why would those results be of interest for a wider and also non-Dutch audience? We think for several reasons.In the first place, the Netherlands' struggle with many urban problems might be instructive for the urban problems other countries face as well (or will have to confront in the near future). Huge transformations that have manifested themselves in the Netherlands affect many more countries. The Dutch economy has become one of the most open (and in times of economic crisis: most vulnerable) and service-oriented of the world. Moreover, the Dutch population has changed dramatically: with one million Muslims and about one million other migrants (out of sixteen million inhabitants), the Netherlands has de facto become an immigration society, like many other West-European countries experiencing similar changes in the past decades. Compared to the old settler societies (the US, Canada, and Australia), the new immigrant countries struggle with problems they had n...

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Are Immigrants' Earnings Influenced by the Characteristics of Their Neighbours?

Cited by 102 publications

References 42 publications

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

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

Individual differences in the neighbourhood level determinants of residential satisfaction

City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change

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