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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 …

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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; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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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New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation Over Time and Space : A Domains Approach

van Ham, Maarten - 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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Reconsidering the Southern Black Belt

Gibbs, Robert M. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 33 (2003) 3, pp. 254-63

The portion of the South known as the Black Belt lies at the heart of what was once the cotton-and-tobacco plantation region and retains a large black population. Despite the Black Belt's high poverty rates and relatively slow economic growth, its large net loss of blacks to urban areas over the...

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Achieving Escape Velocity: Neighborhood and School Interventions to Reduce Persistent Inequality

Fryer, Roland G.; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 232-37

This paper reviews the evidence on the efficacy of neighborhood and school interventions in improving the long-run outcomes of children growing up in poor families. We focus on studies exploiting exogenous sources of variation in neighborhoods and schools and which examine at least medium-term...

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Is Income Inequality Endogenous In Regional Growth?

Hailu, Yohannes G.; Kahsai, Mulugeta S.; Gebremedhin, … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 20 (2011) 3-4, pp. 43-56

This study focuses on testing the relationship between income inequality and economic growth within counties in the United States, and the channels through which the effects of a relationship are observed. Based on a system of equations estimation, the empirical results confirm the hypotheses...

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The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 34-66

A striking negative correlation exists between an area's residential racial segregation and its population characteristics, but it is recognized that this relationship may not be causal. I present a novel test of causality from segregation to population characteristics by exploiting the...

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A Life Course Approach to Understanding Neighbourhood Effects

de Vuijst, Elise; van Ham, Maarten; 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 …

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