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Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation


David M. Cutler


Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Edward L. Glaeser


Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics; Brookings Institution; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Jacob L. Vigdor


Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy; Duke University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

May 2005

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2071

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This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising steadily over the past three decades. Analysis of restricted access 1990 Census microdata suggests that this rise would be even more striking if the native-born children of immigrants could be consistently excluded from the analysis. We analyze panel and cross-sectional variation in immigrant segregation, as well as housing price patterns across metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation. Immigration itself has surged in recent decades, but the tendency for newly arrived immigrants to be younger and of lower socioeconomic status explains very little of the recent rise in immigrant segregation. We also find little evidence of increased nativism in the housing market. Evidence instead points to changes in urban form, manifested in particular as native-driven suburbanization and the decline of public transit as a transportation mode, as a central explanation for the new immigrnt segregation.

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Date posted: May 11, 2005  

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Cutler, David M., Glaeser, Edward L. and Vigdor, Jacob L., Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation (May 2005). Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2071. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=721565 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.721565

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Jacob L. Vigdor
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