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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities
Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016
Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551914
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932493
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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810097
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Ethnic differences in duration and timing of exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage during childhood
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716179
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254
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Understanding neighbourhood effects : selection bias and residential mobility
Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van - 2010
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008845
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Neighbourhood choice and neighbourhood reproduction
Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2010
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153044
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Neighbourhood effects, housing tenure, and individual employment outcomes
Manley, David; Harn, Maarten van - 2010
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if they are employed. The main challenge in the neighbourhood effects literature is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154556
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Socio-spatial mobility in British society
Clark, William A. V.; Ham, Maarten van; Coulter, Rory - 2011
The research reported in this paper examines the nature and extent of socio-spatial mobility in the United Kingdom. In contrast with previous studies, we do not only investigate who moves out of deprived neighbourhoods, but our models cover the entire spectrum of neighbourhoods and provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310767
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Types of spatial mobility and the ethnic context of destination neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments that differ in terms of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428182