Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Impact of Ethnic Segregation Preferences on Neighbourhood Choice

Ibraimovic, Tatjana; Masiero, Lorenzo

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“…Indeed, several mobility studies have tried to explain the tendency towards homogeneity -through choice or constraints -as based on economic resources and ethnic backgrounds (e.g. Clark, 2017;Galster and Magnusson Turner, 2017;Ibraimovic and Masiero, 2014;Musterd et al, 2016;Smith et al, 2014). To understand residential segregation, it is important to grasp to what degree people cluster based on social traits (Fossett, 2006).…”

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Sociocultural, economic and ethnic homogeneity in residential mobility and spatial sorting among couples

2019

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This study aims to advance the spatial conceptualization of 'social homophily' by relating the match, or mismatch, between a household's social and sociocultural characteristics and the characteristics of the neighbourhood of residence to the probability of moving away from that neighbourhood. Three matching dimensions were investigated: economic status, ethnic background and sociocultural disposition. This paper's focus is on the sociocultural dimension because this has not been included extensively in large-scale research so far. Initially we investigate how level of education at the household level interacts with education composition at the neighbourhood level. To further investigate the sociocultural dimension, we then include the share of each partner's income in the total household income in our analyses. Based on the spatial literature at the intersections of class, gender and family, we assume that, together with higher education, the intra-household distribution of income reflects a broader set of sociocultural values. We make use of large-N register data to analyse the residential and mobility behaviour of all registered stable couples in the four largest Dutch urban regions between 2008 and 2009. Our analyses indicate that the degree to which a household 'matches' its social surroundings negatively affects its probability of leaving. This is the case for all three dimensions, with sociocultural

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Sociocultural, economic and ethnic homogeneity in residential mobility and spatial sorting among couples

2019

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“…Their main conclusion is that growing immigrant density appears to cause native flight and slower appreciation. Ibraimovic and Masiero (2014) find that immigrants to Switzerland are willing to pay a modest premium to locate near co-nationals. But, as in Saiz and Wachter, native born pay a higher premium to avoid neighbourhoods with large non-native populations.…”

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Immigration, Capital Flows and Housing Prices

Pavlov

Somerville

2018

Real Estate Economics

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Research on immigration and house prices has found that immigrants raise metropolitan area house price levels, but lower them in immigrant destination neighbourhoods. In this paper we find that this latter result is not globally true. Rather neighbourhood house prices can respond positively to immigrant volumes, at least for the subset of immigrants studied here, which are those who come with wealth. The contrast with existing work highlights the importance of capital flows, in addition to people, in the effect of immigration on local asset markets. Unlike previous work that relies on panel data, we exploit a surprise suspension and subsequent closure of a popular investor immigration program in Canada to assess the impact of wealthy immigrants on local real estate markets using a difference-indifferences methodology. Using transaction data from the Greater Vancouver area, we find that the unexpected suspension of the program had a negative impact on house prices of three percent in the neighbourhoods and market segments most likely to be favoured by the investor immigrants. The negative impact of the suspension occurred quickly, within the first three months following the policy change. This speed suggests it resulted from declines in seller expectations and demand by builders to redevelop existing properties into newer more luxurious housing homes. The price declines are larger for more expensive houses in the target neighbourhoods and for neighbourhoods where the share of recent Chinese immigrants among the population is highest. None of our findings hold for property types not likely to be favoured by investor immigrants, nor for immigrant neighbourhoods favoured by those unlikely to be investor immigrants. Adding our findings to the existing literature on immigration and housing markets makes it clear that immigrants can have positive effects on local housing prices, but the effects depend on who the immigrants actually are and highlights the role of capital in augmenting immigrant demand.

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“…Both of these scenarios entail differences in neighbourhood choice and financial constraints by ethnic group (Ibraimovic and Masiero, 2014).…”

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“…Ethnic others with a history of immigration are often socioeconomically disadvantaged and pre-existing residents may fear socioeconomic decline in the local neighbourhood (Boustan, 2010;Crowder et al, 2011). Homebuyers from in-migrating ethnically "other" groups, however, may be constrained in their choice of residential location due to lower incomes associated with their disadvantaged socioeconomic position, or as a result of discriminatory practices in the housing market (Ibraimovic and Masiero, 2014).…”

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Not so welcome here? Modelling the impact of ethnic in-movers on the length of stay of home-owners in micro-neighbourhoods

Easton

Pryce

2019

Urban Studies

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This paper considers the length of stay of home-owners with white British names in the 40% most-deprived census areas of Glasgow, Scotland. We estimate the impact of ethnically ‘other’ name-group inflows through property purchases at the micro-neighbourhood level. We use a novel longitudinal data set, constructed from the population of home-buyers recorded in all property transaction records from 2003 to 2014, from which we impute ethnicity using name-matching software. We estimate how the survival time (length of ownership) of home-owners with white British names is affected by in-migration of house-buyers from different ethnic name-groups into the micro-neighbourhood, defined as a 50 m radius around each home. Results suggest a complex set of associations between ethnically ‘other’ purchasers/in-movers (based on name groups) and duration of home-ownership for white-British named owners. The most consistent finding is for in-moving purchasers with Pakistani (primarily Muslim) names, which tend to have a relatively large accelerant effect on the moving propensity of home-owners who have white British names. This was true in areas of both high and low non-white ethnic population share. We also find evidence of nonlinearity in this relationship: the accelerant effect diminishes with each additional in-move from purchasers with Pakistani names. The name group with the largest overall accelerant effect was for in-movers with non-white Other names, which were also primarily Muslim in origin, though this effect was less consistent across models.

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Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Impact of Ethnic Segregation Preferences on Neighbourhood Choice

Cited by 31 publications

References 31 publications

Sociocultural, economic and ethnic homogeneity in residential mobility and spatial sorting among couples

Sociocultural, economic and ethnic homogeneity in residential mobility and spatial sorting among couples

Immigration, Capital Flows and Housing Prices

Not so welcome here? Modelling the impact of ethnic in-movers on the length of stay of home-owners in micro-neighbourhoods

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