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New perspectives on ethnic segregation over time and space : a domains approach
Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit - 2016
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 … visible in cities as segregated neighbourhoods often have their own distinct identity and reputation. Residential segregation …
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On the dynamics of segregation
Dahlberg, Matz; Fredriksson, Peter; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi - 2011 - Work in progress.
Card et al (2008a) formalize a model of ethnic residential segregation where an ethnically mixed neighborhood is dynamically stable until its minority share reaches a threshold (the tipping point). Once the neighborhood has surpassed the tipping point, it will experience massive white flight....
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EthniCity of leisure : a domains approach to ethnic integration during free time activities
Kamenik, Kristiina; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the residential neighbourhood, workplaces, leisure, etc.). Where most studies focus on residential segregation, this study focusses on ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523173
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Trajectories of neighborhood change : spatial patterns of increasing ethnic diversity
Zwiers, Merle; Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2016
Western cities are increasingly ethnically diverse and in most cities the share of ethnic minorities is growing. Studies analyzing changing ethnic geographies often limit their analysis to changes in ethnic concentrations in neighborhoods between two points in time. Such a static approach limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532589
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Social assistance receipt among young adults grown up in different neighbourhoods of metropolitan Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2020
Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...
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Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave the neighbourhood
Boschman, Sanne; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2014
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received … neighbourhood are actually successful, and to which neighbourhoods they move. A more thorough insight in who wants to leave which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408999
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In and out of privileged and disadvantaged neighborhoods in Sweden : on the importance of country of birth
Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2023
Moves into and out of privileged neighborhoods as well as moves into and out of disadvantaged neighborhoods in metropolitan Sweden are studied using register data on all moves by adults that took place between 2004 and 2006. Based on estimated multivariate models, we find that, for all four...
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A life course approach to understanding neighbourhood effects
Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016
, intergenerational effects of neighbourhoods. However, these temporal dimensions of neighbourhood effects receive only limited attention … effects is that it does not only allow us to incorporate residential neighbourhoods into individual biographies, but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551905
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Forming of the new ethnic image of Saint Petersburg
Krasnov, Anton I.; Zhitin, Dmitriy V. - 2015
Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485195
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Much ado about nothing? : the role of primary school catchment areas for ethnic school segregation ; evidence from a policy reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2013
By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...
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