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Title: Persistent Discrimination in Residential Mobility between Cities and Suburbs: Flight from Minority Suburbs Succeeds Flight from Minority Suburbs

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Suburbanization has long been associated with upward social mobility. Suburbs generally have lower crime rates and offer more public services of better quality than their urban counterparts, thus providing more benefits and advantages to their residents. In contrast, cities are experiencing urban decay due to out-migration to the suburbs, the decline of industrial activity, and increases in crime. According to urban economic theory, household sorting occurs: households tend to sort themselves into neighborhoods of persons with similar income, education, and race. Household sorting results in poorer, less educated, and ethnic minority individuals living in urban areas such that these residents' characteristics lead to the concentrated problems of cities. At the same time, urban decay reinforces these city residents' lower socio-economic status with more exposure to crime, fewer opportunities for job networking, and scarce public services. Since there is a significant imbalance between suburban and urban neighborhoods, it is important to study movement from cities to suburban and urban neighborhoods, it is important to study movement from cities to suburbs and vice versa.

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Authors: Ling, Jeanette

Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Department: Economics

Advisor: Martha Olney

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Publisher Location: Berkeley, CA

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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