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To what extent should banks, insurance companies and employers be allowed to use personal information about the people whom they lend to, insure or employ in setting the terms of the contract? Even when different treatment is motivated by profit not prejudice, banning discrimination (when...
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We provide evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and … compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking at both … schools and neighbourhoods, we find high levels of segregation for the different groups, along with considerable variation …
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Homophily is the tendency to establish relationships among people who share similar characteristics or attributes. This study presents evidence of homophilic behaviour for an adolescent friendship network of 6,961 links in the West of England. We control for unobserved characteristics by...
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Much work on residential segregation in urban areas has focused on aspatial indices of urban residential segregation … approach to studying segregation. This paper uses two of those measures – Moran’s I and Getis and Ord’s G* – to explore … segregation of the four main ethnic groups in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest and most multi-ethnic city, at the four most recent …
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This paper focuses on one of the outcomes arising from England’s choice based education system; the extent to which different types of pupils are sorted across schools. Pupil sorting will in turn impact on attainment outcomes, if there are peer group effects operating within schools. We...
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The most widely used measure of segregation is the dissimilarity index, D. It is now well understood that this measure … deviations from randomness. This leads to potentially large values of the segregation index when unit sizes and/or minority … proportions are small, even if there is no underlying systematic segregation. Our response to this is to produce an adjustment to …
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Much has been written about ethnic residential segregation in urban areas, almost all of it deploying single …-index numbers to measure the degree of segregation. These give very little detailed appreciation of the extent to which different … population composition of each area, provides much greater insight into the nature and extent of segregation. Data for London in …
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segregation. We track the moves of a single cohort as it approaches the secondary school admission age. We also combine a number … same result: moving is significantly negatively correlated with school quality, and segregation does increase as a cohort … reaches age 11. However, this relationship is weak: the increase in segregation is slight and quantitative significance of the …
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segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explore its nature and spatial variation. We … find substantial segregation on ethnic criteria in some places. Nevertheless, over the country as a whole, attendance at …
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effect. We also test whether the reform reduced school segregation in Wales, and find no systematic significant impact on …
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