What is it about?
Racial gaps in the ability to actually move when expected influence patterns of inequality and segregation. This paper shows that racial gaps have not changed since the 1970s, even as the American population has become less mobile. Results also show that all Americans, regardless of race, are increasingly less likely to move when they expect to.
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Why is it important?
Together, declining mobility and persistent racial gaps contribute to the perpetuation of racial inequality and segregation across generations.
Perspectives
I hope this paper helps guide emerging research on declining mobility and migration in the U.S. So far, most studies have tackled long-distance migration declines, but this paper considers declines in the more common local move and the potential implications for racial inequality and segregation.
Thomas Foster
US Census Bureau
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This page is a summary of: The Persistent Black-White Gap in and Weakening Link between Expecting to Move and Actually Moving, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2332649217728374.
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