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creators_name: Rüttenauer, Tobias
creators_name: Best, Henning
title: Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality
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divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: Environmental inequality; correlated random effects; German SOEP; neighbourhood sorting; selective out-migration
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abstract: The disproportionate exposure of minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged households to environmental pollution is often explained by selective migration or sorting mechanisms. Yet, previous empirical results remain inconclusive. Here, we offer an explanation for the mixed findings by focusing on the selective out-migration stage triggered by environmental pollution. We argue that many income-independent explanations for minority disadvantages predict sorting across destinations but are less predictive for the out-migration stage. We test if the subjective impairment through air pollution selectively affects the probability of out-migration according to income and minority status. We use household-level panel data of the German SOEP from 1986 to 2016 and within-household estimates of correlated random effects probit models. Findings show that perceived air pollution has a stronger effect on the likelihood of moving for households experiencing an increasing income. We also find differences between native German and first-generation immigrant households, but the differences become smaller and non-significant once we control for income. This is at odds with results from previous studies on the in-migration stage, where minorities are heavily disadvantaged but income plays a less important role. The decision to move from pollution seems to follow a different pattern than the determinants of the destination.
date: 2022-02-10
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2022.2030211
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
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elements_id: 1976474
doi: 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2030211
lyricists_name: Ruttenauer, Tobias
lyricists_id: TRUTT32
actors_name: Ruttenauer, Tobias
actors_id: TRUTT32
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
volume: 48
number: 15
pagerange: 3505-3523
issn: 1369-183X
citation:        Rüttenauer, Tobias;    Best, Henning;      (2022)    Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality.                   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 48  (15)   pp. 3505-3523.    10.1080/1369183x.2022.2030211 <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2022.2030211>.       Green open access   
 
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