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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 …
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Placing the poor while keeping the rich in their place
Caulkins, Jonathan P.; Feichtinger, Gustav; Grass, Dieter; … - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 1, pp. 1-34
A central objective of modern US housing policy is deconcentrating poverty through "housing mobility programs" that move poor families into middle class neighborhoods. Pursuing these policies too aggressively risks inducing middle class flight, but being too cautious squanders the opportunity to...
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Policies for mixed communities: faith-based displacement activity?
Cheshire, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
The belief that it is fairer if communities are ``mixed'' can be traced at least to the late nineteenth century and the founders of the Garden City Movement. The idea is now firmly established in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national policies. This article...
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Policies for Mixed Communities
Cheshire, Paul - In: International Regional Science Review 32 (2009) 3, pp. 343-375
The belief that it is fairer if communities are ``mixed'' can be traced at least to the late nineteenth century and the founders of the Garden City Movement. The idea is now firmly established in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national policies. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775033
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Räumliche Auswirkungen der internationalen Migration
Gans, Paul (contributor) - Akademie für Raumforschung and Landesplanung
example, the segregation of migrants in large cities, the neighbourhood choice of second-generation Turkish-origin homeowners … Sammelband setzt sich umfassend mit den Themen Migration und Migrationspolitik, Segregation und Integration, mit Konzepten wie … Segregation von Migrant(inn)en in Großstädten, zu Wohnstandortentscheidungen türkeistämmiger Eigentümer(innen) der zweiten …
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Working Time: Regional Evidence from Germany
Humpert, Stephan - In: Panoeconomicus 61 (2014) 3, pp. 317-329
This paper provides descriptive evidence for declining occupational sex segregation on the German labor market …, especially concerning the regional differences between the former East and West Germany. I use segregation measures and long …-run social security data for the decade of 1992 to 2004. While segregation has declined over time, it remains higher for the …
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Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education
Boozer, Michael; Krueger, Alan; Wolkon, Shari - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1992
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Social Segregation and the Dynamics of Group Inequality
Bowles, Samuel; Sethi, Rajiv - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2006
We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …, provided that social segregation is sufficiently great, (ii) there is threshold level of integration above which group … acquiring human capital can expand the range over which reducing segregation can be Pareto-improving. JEL Categories: D31, Z13 …
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Les inégalités salariales de genre : expliquer l'injustifiable ou justifier l'inexplicable
Meulders, Danièle; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLIV (2005) 2, pp. 95-107
In 2001 the gender wage gap in the European union was lying between 6 % and 21 % (ECHP, full-timers). Gender wage gap clearly appears as the core of the inequalities between men and women on the labor market. Using recent results from a research program on the gender wage gap, we show that the...
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Human capital differentials across municipalities and states in Brazil
Queiroz, Bernardo L.; Golgher, André B. - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2008
empirically wage differentials in Brazil. Last, we compute standard segregation and isolation measures to show the trends in the …
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