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In this paper, we review the evidence base for social mixing in neighbourhoods, which is used as a strategy to tackle assumed negative neighbourhood effects. We discuss in detail the theoretical links between neighbourhood characteristics, and outcomes of individuals living in concentrations of...
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One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
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socio-economic status in different inequality and segregation contexts in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands … the UK, which has long had high levels of social inequalities and high levels of socio-economic segregation, we find that … of the most liberal and market oriented countries, we find high levels of mobility, but these reproduce segregation …
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Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … neighbourhoods but is unable to do so will contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of segregation, especially in the … context of the debate on voluntary segregation versus segregation due to a lack of choice. We find that ethnic minority groups …
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residential segregation. However, we were not able to completely explain the differences between native-born Finns and immigrants … to differences in immigration history and levels of ethnic segregation. Therefore, the local context matters for spatial …
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presentation of the vicious circle of the segregation model and suggest some ways in which this vicious circle of spatial … inequality and segregation can be broken. …
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The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic … segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential neighbourhoods. However, there is now a small, but … growing, literature, which focusses on segregation in other domains of daily life where inter-ethnic encounters and social …
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This paper proposes a framework to assess how compositional differences at the neighborhood level contribute to the moderating effect of neighborhood context on the association between individual risk-factors and delinquency. We propose a neighborhood-based group decomposition to partition...
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society, and this can lead to social unrest. Increasing inequality and socio-economic segregation is therefore a major concern … for local and national governments. Socio-economic segregation is the outcome of a combination of inequality and poverty … households. Urban policy often focusses on reducing segregation through physical measures in cities, such as demolishing houses …
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unique growth trajectories of the ethnic population composition, providing a longitudinal view of ethnic segregation. Our … how residential mobility decreases segregation, while natural population growth tends to reinforce segregation. While the …
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