Residential Location Theory and the Measurement of Segregation

Jeffrey Zax ()

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2003, issue 71-72, 173-188

Abstract: Conventional segregation indices indicate complete integration when the proportion of minorities in a metropolitan area is replicated in any subarea. However, this would not occur, even absent discrimination, because majorities and minorities have different distributions of other residence-determining characteristics. Segregation indices derived from predictions of commuting times for blacks, based on white commuting behavior, have a better theoretical foundation, are largely independent of conventional indices, and imply very different segregation rankings for metropolitan areas.

Date: 2003
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