<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Maggi, Rico</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Ibraimovic, Tatjana</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2013-05-08</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Ethnic pluralism and its increasing trend across European countries has sparked the debate on residential segregation, a phenomenon that has various repercussions at economic, social and urban dimensions of modern societies. Two main segregation drivers are argued  to be at the basis of ethnic clustering: preferences and constrains, first leading to voluntary and second to involuntary segregation outcomes. Even if largely evoked by academics and politicians, the theories over the existence and impact of ethnic preferences on  residential location choices of immigrants and natives still lack the support by strong empirical evidence. This thesis addresses such issues, analysing ethnic determinants of residential location choice of inhabitants in the City of Lugano, Switzerland. In particular, it  proposes an innovative way of studying the voluntary component of ethnic segregation, mainly represented by preferences of households for living next to their co-nationals and to other foreign communities. For this purpose, a specifically designed Stated Preferences  experiment of Neighbourhood Choice is used, allowing us to compute preference indicators as well as to give indications of the value that households place on ethnic neighbourhood characteristics in form of willingness-to-pay (WTP) measures and trade-offs with other  main residential choice drivers. In this way we can determine the degree of importance of ethnic versus other location factors for different population segments. In the analysis a particular attention has been given to the investigation of behavioural aspects of residential  location choice and to the latent heterogeneity across population segments, giving some important insights into the factors that influence more or less strongly the self-segregation preferences of different ethnic communities. The results of this study offer several policy  indications, which can be a valuable contribution for urban planners, social workers and public policy makers.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318542</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318542</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318542/files/2013ECO003.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/urn:nbn:ch:rero-006-111804</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318542</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Ethnic residential segregation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Urban segregation in Europe</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Ethnic segregation preferences</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Voluntary segregation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Residential location choice behaviour</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">SP experiment of neighbourhood choice</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Stated preferences choice methods</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Reference dependence</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">Asymmetric preferences</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">Observed and unobserved heterogeneity</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">Multinomial logit model</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns12="xml" ns12:lang="en">Mixed logit model</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns13="xml" ns13:lang="en">Latent class choice model</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns14="xml" ns14:lang="en">Random parameters choice model</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns15="xml" ns15:lang="en">Investigating the role of ethnic preferences in residential location decisions : Choice analysis on stated preferences data</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>