Intra-metropolitan residential mobility and income sorting trends

The analysis of residential sorting trends: Measuring disparities in socio-spatial mobility

“…To quantify the socio-spatial mobility of groups we have chosen to use a ‘directional mobility’ measure which was proposed by Fields and Ok (1999) in the context of income mobility (equivalent to that used in the socio-spatial context by Clark and Morrison, 2012; Clark et al, 2014; Modai-Snir and Plaut, 2015) and conforms to an ‘absolute’ concept of mobility. This concept captures the extent of change associated with ‘real’ place conditions that can alter over time for similar place relative positions.…”

“…As a result, it does not rely on arbitrary cut-offs to represent neighbourhood types, 1 and mobility patterns form a continuum. Change in neighbourhood socioeconomic contexts has been expressed as the arithmetic difference between destination and origin indicator values (Clark et al, 2014; Modai-Snir and Plaut, 2015), also relative to origin values (Clark and Morrison, 2012), or as difference between destination and origin quantile positions (Brazil and Clark, 2017; Clark and Morrison, 2012; Clark et al, 2014). 2 These measures correspond to measures used in social and income mobility research, which focuses on the changing social and economic positions of individuals over time.…”

The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv

“…During the period 1995-2008, the Gini index of income inequality has increased by 9.8% 2 . Income residential sorting in the TMA has intensified during that period, increasing the segregation of the most affluent (Modai-Snir & Plaut, 2015). This background reveals a combination of historical circumstances, urban processes and macroeconomic processes that shaped and reproduced the north-south divide through decades.…”

Immigrants’ spatial integration dynamics in Tel-Aviv: An analysis of residential mobility and sorting

“…The approach builds on a recently introduced methodological framework that defines divergence in mobility patterns between two groups as a measure of spatial sorting, which can be followed over time to expose trends (Modai-Snir and Plaut, 2018). Mobility patterns are represented by the ‘amount’ of change in neighbourhood attributes that is associated with each relocation, termed as ‘socio-spatial mobility’ (Clark and Morrison, 2012; Clark et al, 2014; Modai-Snir and Plaut, 2015, 2018). We focus on moves among neighbourhoods characterised by immigrant and socioeconomic make-ups which are represented by two variables: (1) the percentage of residents who are recent FSU immigrants and (2) the percentage of high-income residents (to be defined in the data section).…”