importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … residential turnover on student test score gains. We show that high neighbourhood turnover reduces value added for students who …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents’ low employment and to low parental …

behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods …: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …

different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either the extent of segregation or the … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and … one fifth from job segregation. We also show that the widely documented glass ceiling effect operates mainly through …

Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … little attention so far is that some residents will have a desire to leave their neighbourhood, but are unable to do so. The … neighbourhood are actually successful, and to which neighbourhoods they move. A more thorough insight in who wants to leave which …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …

In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive … letting has influenced the residential outcomes of ethnic minorities and resulted in highly structured neighbourhood sorting …

This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater … economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed … segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …

. Moreover, except for Italy, they point to a persisting problem of occupational and sectoral segregation between men working …