
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


This article provides empirical results on patterns of native and immigrant geographic mobility in France. Using longitudinal data, we measure mobility from one French municipality (commune) to another over time and estimate the effect of the initial municipality’s ethnic composition on the probability of moving out. These data allow us to use panel techniques to correct for biases related to selection based on geographic and individual unobservables. Our findings tend to discredit the hypothesis of a “white flight” pattern in residential mobility dynamics in France. Some evidence does show ethnic avoidance mechanisms in natives’ relocating. We also find a strong negative and highly robust effect of co-ethnics’ presence on immigrants’ geographic mobility.
By Sage Publications4.2
2020 ratings
This article provides empirical results on patterns of native and immigrant geographic mobility in France. Using longitudinal data, we measure mobility from one French municipality (commune) to another over time and estimate the effect of the initial municipality’s ethnic composition on the probability of moving out. These data allow us to use panel techniques to correct for biases related to selection based on geographic and individual unobservables. Our findings tend to discredit the hypothesis of a “white flight” pattern in residential mobility dynamics in France. Some evidence does show ethnic avoidance mechanisms in natives’ relocating. We also find a strong negative and highly robust effect of co-ethnics’ presence on immigrants’ geographic mobility.

22,000 Listeners

32,120 Listeners

43,566 Listeners

7,700 Listeners

290 Listeners

290 Listeners

1,823 Listeners

46 Listeners

21 Listeners

7 Listeners

1,833 Listeners

3 Listeners

12 Listeners

8 Listeners

17 Listeners

3 Listeners

2 Listeners

4 Listeners

432 Listeners

53 Listeners

6,371 Listeners

6,380 Listeners

2,085 Listeners

410 Listeners