The aim of this article is to analyse ethnic residential segregation in Sweden, both theoretically and empirically. It is argued that ethnic residential segregation, although it is an intra-urban phenomenon, must be viewed in a wider geographical perspective. The three major competing frameworks...

This paper contributes to the literature on obtaining unbiased estimates of neighborhood effects, explored in the context of a centralized social welfare state. We employ a longitudinal database comprised of all working age adults in metropolitan Sweden 1991-1999 to investigate the degree to...

From the 1930s and into the 1990s, public housing in Sweden was a key element in the Social Democrats' ambition to construct a housing system that would secure high-quality, affordable housing for all. The Liberal--Conservative national government of the early 1990s initiated important changes...

This paper aims to summarise the experiences of the Swedish 'big city policy' (officially labelled the Metropolitan Development Initiative) and to judge the potential for achieving the MDI's overall goal to 'break segregation'. This state initiative was launched in 1999 with the two aims to...

This paper analyses the degree to which the mixture of low-, middle- and high-income males in the neighbourhood affects the subsequent earnings of individuals, and aims to test explicitly the degree to which these impacts vary across gender, age, presence of children, employment status or income...