Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ong, C.
Author-Email: ong@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Tipping points? Ethnic composition change in Dutch big city neighbourhoods
Abstract: Micro-level studies using individual and household data have shown that 
	 residential location choices are influenced by neighbourhood ethnic 
	 composition. Using three conurbation samples in the Netherlands - 
	 Amsterdam metropolitan area, Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan area, and 
	 the countrys largest conurbation, the Randstad metropolitan area - 
	 this paper analyses the evolution of neighbourhood ethnic composition as 
	 a social interaction outcome of disaggregated household behaviour. The 
	 potential tipping point in neighbourhood ethnic composition, beyond 
	 which white flight or the departure of native or advantaged 
	 households occurs, is tested. The share in neighbourhood population of 
	 native Dutch and western minority did not exhibit the hypothesised 
	 tipping behaviour in its growth rate with respect to initial share of 
	 non-western minority. This paper argues that the large social housing 
	 sector, centralised tax regime, and strong regulatory role of the state 
	 in housing and urban planning, are the main explanatory factors for the 
	 relative constancy in Dutch neighbourhood ethnic composition.
Classification-JEL: J15, R21, R31, R58
Keywords: Minorities, Ethnic segregation, Neighbourhood, Housing Supply and Markets,
	 Urban renewal, Regression discontinuity
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20140131
Number: 2014-011
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2014/wp2014-011.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 243 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014011