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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
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The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126931
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The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924612
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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten; Feijten, Peteke - 2011
Residential mobility decisions are known to be made at the household level. However, most empirical analyses of residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals. If partners in a couple do not share evaluations of...
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Ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation in Estonia
Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; Leetmaa, Kadri; … - 2011
Large scale suburbanisation is a relatively recent phenomenon in East Central Europe and responsible for major socio-spatial changes in metropolitan areas. Little is known about the ethnic dimensions of this process. However, large minority population groups, mainly ethnic Russians, remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278643
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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich
Musterd, Sako; Marcińczak, Szymon; van Ham, Maarten; … - 2015
Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...
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Inequalities and Segregation across the Long-Term Economic Cycle: An Analysis of South and North European Cities
Tammaru, Tiit; Marcińczak, Szymon; Aunap, Raivo; van … - 2017
The aim of this paper is to get new insight into the complex relationship between social inequalities and socioeconomic segregation by undertaking a comparative study North and South European cities. Our main finding shows that during the last global economic cycle from the 1980s through the...
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Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - 2012
based letting - for households accessing an increasingly marginalised social housing sector whilst also expressing a …
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Lessons learned from the largest tenure mix operation in the world: Right to buy in the United Kingdom
Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - 2013
(in terms of tenure and dwelling types) and as a means to establish a more socially mixed neighborhood population. Mixed …, removing the potential of negative neighborhood effects. By far the largest tenure mix operation in Europe is the Right to Buy …: residualisation, neighborhood stability, tenure mix and social mix, social interactions, and dwelling maintenance. Although we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291462
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour
Coulter, Rory - 2010
Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form these pre-move thoughts, with a largely separate literature examining actual mobility. Only a few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136495