Differences in the locational attainment of immigrant and native-born households with children in New York City

Abstract

In this paper we use a data set created especially for New York City to evaluate whether the locational attainment of households with children, as indicated by the context of the neighborhoods in which they live, varies by their immigrant status. In addition, we evaluate whether the relationship between immigrant status and neighborhood conditions varies by the householder's race/ethnicity. Overall, when compared with native-born households with children, immigrant households with children live in neighborhoods of lower quality, characterized by higher teenage fertility rates and higher percentages of students in local schools scoring below grade level in math and of persons receiving AFDC, but lower rates of juvenile detention. Further analyses, however, revealed that race/ethnicity is far more potent than immigrant status per se in predicting where households with children live.

Housing and wealth inequality: Racial-ethnic differences in home equity in the United States

“…The same is true for mortgage and housing characteristics for blacks and Hispanics. These findings are consistent with Flippen's (2001a) study of home equity among preretirement-age whites, blacks, and Hispanics, as well as with considerable evidence that nonwhites are widely discriminated against in the housing market in ways that limit their access to the most-favorable neighborhoods and housing (Alba and Logan 1992;Alba et al 2000a;Flippen 2001b;Logan and Alba 1993;Massey and Denton 1993;Rosenbaum and Friedman 2001 ;Ross and Yinger 2002;Yinger 1995). Such discrimination (e.g., providing less information, steering to more heavily minority areas, showing smaller, lower-quality, or lower-value homes) should mute the influence of family and market factors on housing equity, as we found here.…”

“…Research on wealth inequality beyond the black-white divide is in its infancy (Campbell and Kaufman 2000;Flippen 2001a;Hao forthcoming). A larger literature has examined residential segregation and inequality in housing conditions for whites and Hispanics or Asians, but this research has not connected housing conditions to home equity or wealth (Alba and Logan 1992;Alba, Logan, and Stults 2000b;Fischer 2003;Flippen 2001b;Frey and Farley 1996;Krivo 1995;Massey and Denton 1993;Myers and Lee 1998;Rosenbaum and Friedman 2001). We addressed this gap by examining the determinants of inequality in housing equity among whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics in the United States.…”

“…These practices also limit access to communities with greater status and amenities, such as good-quality schools, parks, and shopping (e.g., Alba, Logan, and Stults 2000a;Flippen 2001b;Rosenbaum and Friedman 2001). Whites' prejudice against living in areas with numerous minorities (especially blacks) also weakens the demand for housing in nonwhite neighborhoods (Bobo and Zubrinsky 1996;Charles 2000;Farley et al 1994;Krysan 2002).…”

A Statistical Approach for Analyzing Residential Isolation and its Determinants for Immigrant Communities: an Application to the Montréal Metropolitan Region

“…The basic principle behind the construction of communities is based on the country of birth of the breadwinner or his parents, depending of his generational status, either: We then regrouped countries that have contextual or geographical similarities and kept the 15 main immigrant communities, excluding those who come from France, England and USA for historical reasons. The characteristics are thus those of the breadwinner, which is the usual procedure for that kind of study (Rosenbaum and Friedman 2001;Myles and Hou 2003). This procedure allows a better accuracy on the residential location of the second generation.…”

Housing tenure choice of immigrants in the United States.

“…For further literature on housing tenure choice, please consult a number of housing tenure choice researchers who have conducted other studies revealing interesting findings on housing tenure choice decisions for other countries such as Australia (Bourassa 1994(Bourassa , 1995, Sweden (Abramsson et al 2002) (2000), Knight and Eakin (1998), Krivo (1995), Lee (2000), Meyers (1996), Ratner (1997), Ray (1994), Rosenbaum and Friedman (2001), Van (1996), White and Hurdley (2003) and Vanderhart (2002).…”