Differences in immigrant economic trajectories have been attributed to a wide variety of factors. One of these is the local spatial context where immigrants reside. This spatial context assumes special salience in light of expanding public exposure to and scholarly interest in the potential...

In science and in society at large, there is a big debate going on about the existence and potential impact of 'neighbourhood effects'. The dominant question is: does the social composition of the neighbourhood have specific positive or negative effects on the career prospects of those who are...

Today, many who are involved in the governance of urban development and housing plea for area-based strategies to tackle urban social problems. Various arguments may be given to legitimise that kind of policy intervention. In this paper the assumptions behind the policy application are...

This paper raises four broad questions related to the neighbourhood effect issue. (1) Is there really a strong relation between housing mix and social mix? (2) How does the social composition of neighbourhoods affect residents’ social interaction and behaviour? (3) Are social opportunities of...

This paper aims to summarise the experiences of the Swedish 'big city policy' (officially labelled the Metropolitan Development Initiative) and to judge the potential for achieving the MDI's overall goal to 'break segregation'. This state initiative was launched in 1999 with the two aims to...

From the 1930s and into the 1990s, public housing in Sweden was a key element in the Social Democrats' ambition to construct a housing system that would secure high-quality, affordable housing for all. The Liberal--Conservative national government of the early 1990s initiated important changes...

This paper analyses the degree to which the mixture of low-, middle- and high-income males in the neighbourhood affects the subsequent earnings of individuals, and aims to test explicitly the degree to which these impacts vary across gender, age, presence of children, employment status or income...