Dissecting income segregation: Impacts of concentrated affluence on segregation of poverty
Authored by Mustafa Yavas
Date Published: 2019
DOI: 10.1080/0022250x.2018.1476858
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Abstract
This article investigates how income inequality shapes residential
segregation by income. Using agent-based modeling, it develops a
residential preferences model that is capable of generating results
mimicking empirical income segregation patterns. Simulation analysis
shows how varying income inequality produces differential residential
mobility outcomes that alter income segregation profiles. The model is
used to capture the distinct impacts of households' moves into richer or
poorer neighborhoods, and how these impacts are further differentiated
with respect to the moving household's income. The article demonstrates
how aggregating such diverse outcomes of micro-level interactions at a
meso-level can help us to better understand the changes in macro-level
income segregation patterns. Analyzing residential mobility patterns
carefully, the article suggests that i) segregation of affluence and of
poverty can trigger each other via initiating cascades of residential
mobility and housing prices, and ii) increasing income inequality can
disrupt housing market and lead to shortages in affordable housing,
which can yield high residential instability and eviction rates among
the poorest stratum.
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Agent-based modeling
Crime
Inequality
analytical sociology
Model
residential segregation
Mechanisms
neighborhoods
Ethnic-preferences
Income inequality
Concentration of affluence
Concentration of poverty
Eviction
Income
segregation
Social distance dynamics
Economic segregation