Richard Wright1

Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College
Richard studies labor markets and housing markets in the US as well as "skilled" migration and some immigration topics.

Segregation and Diversity in US and UK Housing Markets

2022 "Making Metros White? The Effects of U.S. Metropolitan Reclassification on Racial Compositional Change," The Professional Geographer, with Mark Ellis and Nicole Tiao. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.2018660

2021 "Rethinking the 'Buffering' Theory of Neighborhood Racial Transition," Sociology Compass, with Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12880

2021 "Mixed Measures: Different Definitions of Racially Diverse Neighborhoods Compared," Urban Geography, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Mehrnush Golriz. 42, 8, 1147-1169. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1756056

2020 "The Evolution and Stability of Multi-Ethnic Residential Neighbourhoods in England," Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 46, 2, 330-346, with Gemma Catney and Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12416

2020 "The Instability of Highly Racially Diverse Residential Neighborhoods in the United States," Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 6, 3, 365-381, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Gemma Catney, https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218819168.

2018 "Predicting neighborhood racial change in US metropolitan areas," Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317744558, with Mark Ellis, Lee Fiorio, and Steven Holloway.

2017 "Remaking White Residential Segregation: Neighborhood Succession and Metropolitan Diversity in the United States," Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2017.1360039, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Lee Fiorio.

Skilled Migration Research

2019 "Where STEM Graduates Move: Human Capital, Employment Growth, and Interstate Migration in the United States," Population, Space and Place, 25, 4, with Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2224.

2017 "The matching of STEM degree holders with STEM jobs in large US labor markets" Economic Geography, 93, 2, 185-201, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2016.1220803, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.

Migration Regulation

2022 "Occupational Licensing and Interstate Migration in the United States," Monthly Labor Review, with Thomas Cooke and Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2022.22

2018 "A Prospective on Zelinsky's 'Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition'," Geographical Review, doi: 10.1111/gere.12310, with Thomas Cooke and Mark Ellis.

Great Recession/Anti-immigrant Legislation Research

2016 "State-scale Immigration Enforcement and Latino Interstate Migration in the United States," Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 106, 4, 891-908. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2015.1135725, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.

2015 "The Great Recession and the Migration Redistribution of Blacks and Whites in the US South," Growth and Change, 46, 4, 611-630. DOI: 10.1111/grow.12107, with Natasha Rivers and Mark Ellis.

2014 "The migration response to the Legal Arizona Workers Act," Political Geography, 42, 46-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.06.001, with Mark Ellis, Kristy Copeland, and Matt Townley.

2014 "The Allure of New Immigrant Destinations and the Great Recession in the United States," International Migration Review, 48, 1, 3-33. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12058, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.