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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2013 Apr 4;42(4):1046–1060. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.03.007

Table 5.

Fixed-effects regression models of white-minority dissimilarity by household income 2000–2011.

Metropolitan area correlates White segregation from all Blacks
White segregation from all Hispanics
White segregation from all Asians
Less than
$25 k
$25–
50 k
$50–
100 k
$100 k or
more
Less than
$25 k
$25–
50 k
$50–
100 k*
$100 k or
more
Less than
$25 k
$25–
50 k
$50–
100 k
$100 k or
more
Racial/ethnic concentration
  Proportion minority group −.25 −.43 −.79* −.60 .30 −.02 −.10 .20 −.84 −.33 −.50 −.62
  Proportion white .12 .06 −.14 .07 .20 .12 .12 .29 −.01 .25 .10 .16
  Proportion minority foreign-born .42*** .41*** .43*** .47*** .02 .04 .08 .18* −.02 −.05 .02 .04
White-to-minority income ratio .03 −.04 .00 .03 −.04 −.02 .01 .03 −.01 −.01 −.01 .02
Poverty rate
  Minority group .17 .35* .21 .15 .42* .33* .36* .24 −.26** −.08 .07 .17
  White −1.12* −.41 −.25 −.38 −.24 .04 .00 .66 .60 .41 .51 .68
Unemployment rate
  Minority group .14 .02 −.10 −.19 −.33 −.22 −.26 −.20 −.02 −.13 −.20 −.30
  White −.55 −1.09** −1.06* −.85 −.21 .04 .39 −.17 .17 .74* .56 −.06
Educational attainment
  Minority group (ref = high school grad)
  Less than high school .07 .19 .22 .11 .00 −.08 .02 .05 .08 .13 .14 .04
  Some college −.13 −.22 −.08 −.15 −.19 −.37 −.24 −.29 .29 .19 .27 .19
  College graduate −.17 −.18 −.35 −.36* −.19 −.44* −.38* −.31 .03 .11 .15 .05
  White (ref = high school grad)
    Less than high school −.15 .03 −.25 −.23 −.03 .17 .04 −.75 −.94 −.74 −.85 −.97
    Some college −.42 −.10 −.33 −.10 .24 .09 .14 −.49 −.42 −.21 −.46 −.75
    College graduate −.38 .12 −.03 .05 .29 .33 .17 −.05 −.77 −.76 −.90* −.58
Occupational structure (ref = lower white)
  White collar −1.14*** −.87** −1.08** −1.31*** −.19 −.33 −.01 −.60 .76* 1.07** .50 −.50
  Blue collar −.96*** −.65 −.97** −1.34*** −.25 −.28 .09 −.31 .45 .61* .23 −.66
Metropolitan population (logged) .10* .10* .09 .12** .05 .10* .06 .08 .05 .09* .05 .05
Proportion aged 65 and over 1.32** .85 .76 .93 .83 .35 .30 .05 1.57** 1.02* 1.03 .97
New housing construction −.24 −.31** −.34* −.19 .08 .06 −.01 −.03 −.11 −.04 .06 .09
Homeownership rate −.10 −.08 −.07 −.05 −.29 −.06 −.15 −.24 −.32 −.26 −.39 −.52*
Mean home value (logged) .07** .07** .02 .00 .04 .03 .02 −.02 .05 .05* .05 .03
Constant −.92 −1.26 .12 −.15 −.79 −1.28 −.68 .01 −.59 −1.75 −.73 .24

Notes: Number of cases is 200 (100 metros in each time period). Standard errors adjusted for clustering.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.