Residential Mobility 5

Question 1

Why do metropolitan areas dominated by manufacturing employment experience higher levels of segregation?

Answer 1

Population dynamics and social-structural characteristics shaped by decades of racial separation help maintain higher levels of segregation between multiple racial and ethnic groups (Logan et al. 2004) and may limit the likelihood of mobility into integrated neighborhoods.

Question 2

What effects do education and income have on the likelihood that black householders will avoid racial isolation and gain access to more integrated neighborhoods?

Answer 2

These factors tend to increase the likelihood. (Crowder et al 2012)

Question 3

What effects do education and income have on the likelihood that white householders will avoid racial isolation and gain access to more integrated neighborhoods?

Answer 3

These factors improve whites’ ability to shield themselves from residence in neighborhoods containing many minority residents, especially neighborhoods containing significant shares of blacks. (Crowder et al 2012)

Question 4

What do Crowder et al. (2012) find about white and black householders and their mobility to multiethnic neighborhoods?

Answer 4

Their findings show that despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods, relatively few white or black householders originate in or move between neighborhoods that could reasonably be defined as multiethnic.

Question 5

What is Wolpert’s (1965) place utility model?

Answer 5

That the individual evaluates his residence in terms of its benefits and costs, arriving at an assessment of its net utility, termed “place utility.” PU is compared to expected utility of a move, cost/benefit.