Locational returns to human capital: Minority access to suburban community resources

Abstract

The suburbanization of racial and ethnic minorities is analyzed in terms of the locational resources provided by their communities of residence. In suburbs in the New York CMSA, non-Hispanic whites and Asians, on average, live in communities with higher average socioeconomic status, while Hispanics and blacks live in the less desirable suburbs. Models predicting suburban socioeconomic status for each racial/ethnic group show that whites and Hispanics receive consistent returns on income, acculturation, and family status. Asians' locational patterns differ because they are unrelated to measures of acculturation; for blacks, locational outcomes correspond least to any of these human capital characteristics.

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

“…This is in line with the strong version of the stratification theory (Logan and Alba, 1993), which states that the locational returns of income are relatively low for (stigmatised) minority groups.…”

“…These studies have an important limitation: they generally characterise neighbourhoods based on a limited number of characteristics (Hedman et al, 2011). Studies typically model whether or not households move into a poor neighbourhood (Clark et al, 2006;Logan and Alba, 1993), or into a minority-concentration neighbourhood or not (Brama, 2006;Clark and Ledwith, 2007;Doff, 2010;South and Crowder, 1998). However, in reality, the selection of a neighbourhood will depend on multiple neighbourhood characteristics that are assessed simultaneously and in combination (Hedman et al, 2011).…”

Minority Ethnic Groups in the Dutch Housing Market: Spatial Segregation, Relocation Dynamics and Housing Policy

“…The mechanisms that bring about the dispersion of ethnic groups are acculturation and socioeconomic mobility (Charles, 2003;Logan and Alba, 1993;Massey, 1985). Acculturation is the gradual acquisition of the language, norms, and values of the host community (Gordon, 1964).…”

A home of her own: an analysis of asset ownership for non-married black and white women

“…Racial differences in housing values and intergenerational wealth transfers have also been linked to racial differences in human capital (Edin, 2001;Logan & Alba, 1993) and social capital (Astone, Nathanson, Schoen, & Kim, 1999;Coleman, 1988). Non-whites have lower levels of education, occupational prestige and income (Grodsky & Pager, 2001;McCall, 2001) and weaker social ties to networks and institutions that assist in the process of asset accumulation compared to whites.…”

“…Researchers have also shown that racial minorities often times have higher unemployment rates, lower educational rates, are less likely than to marry when compared with whites and that racial differences in home ownership is an outcome of those differences (Logan & Alba, 1993). Moreover, research has shown that racial minorities are less likely to have access to professional occupations and have relatively lower incomes (Levy & Richard, 1991).…”