Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities : Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model (discussion paper)

The selective inflow and outflow of residents by ethnicity is the main mechanism behind ethnic residential segregation. Many studies have found that ethnic minorities are more likely than others to move to ethnic minority concentration neighbourhoods. An important question which remains largely unanswered is to what extent this can be explained by own group preferences, or by other neighbourhood or housing market factors. By using longitudinal...