TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic inequality in home ownership and the value of housing
T2 - The case of immigrants in Israel
AU - Lewin-Epstein, Noah
AU - Elmelech, Yuval
AU - Semyonov, Moshe
N1 - Funding Information:
* The research reported in this article benefited from the generous support of the Israel Foundation Trustees (grant#90/82) and of the Basic Research Foundation administered by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Grant #91-1/216). An earlier version of this article was presented at the meeting of the International Sociological Association Committee on Social Stratification in Zurich, Switzerland, May 1995. Direct correspondence to Noah Lewin-Epstein, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected].
PY - 1997/6
Y1 - 1997/6
N2 - This article aims to contribute to an understanding of how immigrants are incorporated into the stratification system by focusing on ownership of housing. The hypothesis is that time of immigration and place of residence account for a large portion of the ethnic disparities in wealth in Israel, independent of human capital and success in the labor market. Data from the 1986/87 Household Expenditure Survey were employed in order to estimate the probability of home ownership and the value of housing for three Jewish groups (North African, Asian, and European), who immigrated to Israel during different periods. The findings reveal that (1) time of migration has a monotonic relationship to home ownership; (2) North African immigrants are severely disadvantaged relative to other Jewish groups and this is due, in part, to the fact that they arrived later and were directed to development towns in the periphery; (3) immigrants from Asia and from Europe have similar home ownership rates; but an advantage in favor of European immigrants is evident once time of migration is controlled. The findings are discussed in light of their significance for ethnic socioeconomic inequality and its persistence over generations.
AB - This article aims to contribute to an understanding of how immigrants are incorporated into the stratification system by focusing on ownership of housing. The hypothesis is that time of immigration and place of residence account for a large portion of the ethnic disparities in wealth in Israel, independent of human capital and success in the labor market. Data from the 1986/87 Household Expenditure Survey were employed in order to estimate the probability of home ownership and the value of housing for three Jewish groups (North African, Asian, and European), who immigrated to Israel during different periods. The findings reveal that (1) time of migration has a monotonic relationship to home ownership; (2) North African immigrants are severely disadvantaged relative to other Jewish groups and this is due, in part, to the fact that they arrived later and were directed to development towns in the periphery; (3) immigrants from Asia and from Europe have similar home ownership rates; but an advantage in favor of European immigrants is evident once time of migration is controlled. The findings are discussed in light of their significance for ethnic socioeconomic inequality and its persistence over generations.
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U2 - 10.1093/sf/75.4.1439
DO - 10.1093/sf/75.4.1439
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AN - SCOPUS:0031533484
SN - 0037-7732
VL - 75
SP - 1439
EP - 1462
JO - Social Forces
JF - Social Forces
IS - 4
ER -
