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The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most...
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Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...
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-spatial structures. We use the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) to classify neighbourhoods defined as small areas containing … between these neighbourhoods, classified into deprivation deciles. We define upward socio-spatial mobility as moving to … neighbourhoods with lower levels of deprivation. The focus on residential choices and the outcomes – residential sorting – allows us …
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inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and study the transmission of deprivation among them. In particular, we … the analysis of deprivation diffusion among social exclusion dimensions with the aim of acquiring a deeper understanding … of the mechanism governing deprivation transmission. We also provide an empirical implementation that investigates the …
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This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion. The empirical application relies on indices introduced...
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This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a job. We used individual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), a 5.3% sample of...
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being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms … satisfaction measures depend on relative deprivation, as well as on other determinants. As for the second objective, we first … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less …
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deprivation areas, suggesting a ‘social norm’ effect. Our random effects (household) ordered probit modelling approach finds that …
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