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Locational returns to human capital: Minority access to suburban community resources

Author(s) -

John Logan,

Richard Alba

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061840

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , residence , acculturation , ethnic group , geography , human capital , demography , suburbanization , demographic economics , american community survey , socioeconomics , immigration , population , sociology , economics , economic growth , census , anthropology , archaeology

The suburbanization of racial and ethnic minorities is analyzed in terms of the locational resources provided by their communities of residence. In suburbs in the New York CMSA, non-Hispanic whites and Asians, on average, live in communities with higher average socioeconomic status, while Hispanics and blacks live in the less desirable suburbs. Models predicting suburban socioeconomic status for each racial/ethnic group show that whites and Hispanics receive consistent returns on income, acculturation, and family status. Asians’ locational patterns differ because they are unrelated to measures of acculturation; for blacks, locational outcomes correspond least to any of these human capital characteristics.

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