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Title: Ghettos and the Transmission of Ethnic Capital

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Publication Year: 2002

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Abstract: The focus of this study, and to some degree its motivation, is the experience of blacks and white immigrant groups in the early part of the twentieth century. In this chapter we introduce ethnic group segregation measures derived from Census data beginning in 1910. These indices measure the degree to which foreign-born individuals are isolated within enclaves composed of persons of their nationality. In 1910, as Figure 1 illustrates, some white ethnic groups Russians and Italians were actually more segregated, on average, than blacks in cities across the United States. Similar to blacks, these immigrant groups had socioeconomic outcomes that lagged behind those of native whites. This can be seen in Figure 2, which plots an occupation-based measure of income over time for each group...

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Authors: Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L.

Publisher: Harvard University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Poverty and Welfare

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