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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652102
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Household allocation and spatial distribution in a market under (“soft”) rent control
Enström Öst, Cecilia; Söderberg, Bo; Wilhelmsson, Mats - Institutionen för fastigheter och byggande, Kungliga … - 2013
analysed. <p> We analyse whether segregation exists in the rental housing market in Stockholm, Sweden, a market under … persistent and all-embracing, yet “soft”, rent control. We use segregation measures for the uncontrolled cooperative (multifamily …) housing segment as benchmarks for analysing whether rent control counteracts segregation. Furthermore, we compare segregation …
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Fertility decisions and endogenous residential sorting
Tumen, Semih - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 78-87
This paper develops a theoretical framework to consider fertility decisions within an endogenous sorting model of neighborhood effects. The models in the literature typically assume that each family is endowed with children whose expected schooling outcomes are determined by parental preferences...
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A household-level decomposition of the white–black homeownership gap
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Le, Kien T.; Seah, Kiat Ying - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 52-62
segregation. …
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Homebuying in New Orleans Before and After Katrina: Patterns by Space, Race and Income
Immergluck, Dan; Lee, Yun Sang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
homebuyers in the region and the city who were African-American or low-income declined. Finally, we find that segregation levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621467
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Income Inequality, School Choice and the Endogenous Gentrification of US Cities
Ghidi, Paololo Melindi - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
Why in some urban areas do rich and poor households cohabit at the community level while, in others, we observe a sorting by income? To answer this question I develop a two-community general equilibrium framework of school quality, residential choice and tax decision. The model predicts that in...
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Optimal Spatial Patterns of Two, Three and Four Segregated Household Groups in a Monocentric City
Wagner, Wolfgang - Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere … - 2004
Usually, in monocentric city models the spatial patterns of segregated household groups are assumed to be ring-shaped, while early in the 1930ies Hoyt showed that wedge-shaped areas empirically predominate. This contribution presents a monocentric city model with different household groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772966
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Dynamics of neighborhood formation and segregation by income
Osiris Jorge, Parcero; Adolfo, Cristobal-Campoamor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes some determinant conditions under which neighborhood formation gives rise to segregation by income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108472
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The Poverty Concentration Implications of Housing Subsidies: A Cellular Automata Thought Experiment
Jewell, Kevin - EconWPA - 2005
Looking at data from HUD’s low income housing tax credit database from 1987 to 2001, we examine how the US tax credit program has concentrated poverty in neighborhoods by offering advantages to developing low income housing projects in low income census tracts. We then use a simple Cellular...
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Factors Affecting Residential Property Values in a Small Historic Canadian University Town
Janmaat, John A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia is a small historic community, economically dominated by Acadia University. It is located on the north slope of a ridge, affording views of the Minas Basin, at the eastern end of the Bay of Fundy. The upper boundary of the town is a major provincial highway. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790275