caa a22 4500 606165541 CHVBK 20210128100654.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0709-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0709-6 Nakagawa Mariko Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan aut Segregation patterns in cities: ethnic clustering without skill differences [Elektronische Daten] [Mariko Nakagawa] This study analyzes residential segregation by introducing the concept of ethnicity clustering externality. In an economy with two areas, namely the center and suburb, households with different ethnic characteristics (termed the majority and minority), both of which have identical skill levels, endogenously choose their residential location in the long run. By analyzing stable residential equilibria, we show that, because of their ethnic clustering preferences, minority residents are more likely to cluster in one area than majority residents. In addition, when the commuting cost is low, minority residents always cluster, widening the population gap between areas. At the same time, majority households migrate to a less crowded area to avoid the residential congestion caused by minority clustering, thus reducing the population gap. In this sense, the majority acts as an equalizer of population sizes between the center and suburb under low commuting costs. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/2-3(2015-12-01), 453-483 0570-1864 55:2-3<453 2015 55 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0709-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0709-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nakagawa Mariko Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/2-3(2015-12-01), 453-483 0570-1864 55:2-3<453 2015 55 168