We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are … consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the … nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition to providing a consistent measure of segregation, we also document new patterns …

Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a … segregation, controlling for individual characteristics and both metropolitan area and country-of-origin fixed effects, we … estimate impacts of residential concentration that vary with group human capital levels. Residential concentration can be …

This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and … 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades … segregation, as well as housing price patterns across metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation …

's disutility from making an effort to become skilled. We show that an increase in segregation has potentially ambiguous effects on … the model to the results obtained previously for the US. We find that segregation is likely to have a smaller negative …

-varying region and family income effects, as well as to tests for selective migration, though mean reversion may account for some …

friendships were the only vehicle for interracial contact outside the classroom. Finally, the extent of segregation associated …

the patterns of racial and ethnic segregation within occupation, industry, establishments, and occupation …-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of … establishment and job cell. Our results indicate that greater segregation between Hispanic men and white men than between Hispanic …

This paper presents measures of segregation in public schools for metropolitan areas. It shows that, not only are … metropolitan areas very segregated, most of that segregation is due to racial disparities between districts rather than segregative … fragmentation by school district. Segregation at the metropolitan level appears to vary systematically with size, racial mix, and …