-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on …

Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth … examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … educational achievement of adolescents at age 16. Our results indicate that neighbourhood poverty impacts on educational …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents’ low employment and to low parental … education. -- Child poverty ; neighbourhood ; Sweden …

these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of living in poverty concentration areas, often … RTB are by no means solely beneficial. -- Right to Buy ; tenure mix ; neighbourhood effects ; urban renewal ; residential … mobility ; poverty neighbourhoods …

The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial … because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most studies investigating such effects only identify correlations … literature by investigating neighbourhood effects on occupational mobility separately for social renters, private renters and …

According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths … relative wealth. Our central question was whether the economic position of adolescents' families relative to the neighbourhood …, moving to a more affluent neighbourhood was related to increased levels of depression, social phobia, aggression, and …

Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth … examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … educational achievement of adolescents at age 16. Our results indicate that neighbourhood poverty impacts on educational …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents' low employment and to low parental … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …

increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had … longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance … in the longer run. The evidence on the long-run effects of the minimum wage on poverty and public assistance is not …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …