Assumptions about the role of neighbourhood effects are increasingly built into urban policies, particularly in relation to the role of spatial concentrations of disadvantage in perpetuating inequality and social exclusion. Nevertheless, hard evidence to underpin this assumption is still largely...

To complement analyses of how education affects locational outcomes in labour and housing markets, this paper investigates the impact of location (at neighbourhood and sub-regional scales) on English secondary school public exam results. This is explored both in terms of grades/points achieved...

The growth of “global cities” in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarization, including the increase in low-paid service jobs. Although held to be untrue for European cities at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New...

In this work, we present the structural quality of polycrystalline silicon films formed by high-temperature chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on mullite ceramics coated with spin-on flowable oxides (FOx) serving as intermediate layers (ILs). The average grain size and the size distribution were...