Publication: Immigrant locations and native residential preferences: emerging ghettos or new communities?
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2019-07-01
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Abstract
Strong political movements voicing opposition to immigration are on the upswing.
Does such potential antagonism translate into residential dynamics? We study whether
natives
ed from immigrant areas in reaction to the largest and fastest migration shock
in the OECD. The in
ow{causing the population of Spain to grow by 10 percent between
1998 and 2008{represented a largely new phenomenon, the size of which had not
been factored into previous expectations, thereby providing quasi-experimental sources
of variance. Our results show that immigrant in
ows caused mild native displacement
from denser, established neighborhoods, but also more real estate development in these
areas. In parallel, both natives and immigrants were collocating in booming suburban
communities, resulting in no changes to overall measures of ethnic segregation. In light
of the results, we argue that whenever ethnic-minority arrivals spur the creation of new
neighborhoods, conventional empirical methods overstate the degree of native
fight.
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International migration, Native flight, Residential segregation
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Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J., Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A., & Saiz, A. (2019). Immigrant locations and native residential preferences: Emerging ghettos or new communities? Journal of Urban Economics, 112, pp. 133-151.