Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany

Verena Dill () and Uwe Jirjahn

No 416, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated residential areas are more likely to report discrimination because of their ethnic background. This applies to both segregated areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than self-selection plays an important role in immigrant residential segregation.

Keywords: Segregation; immigrants; housing discrimination; self-selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 R23 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 p.
Date: 2011
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-mig and nep-ure
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