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contrast with previous studies, we do not only investigate who moves out of deprived neighbourhoods, but our models cover the … entire spectrum of neighbourhoods and provide a more complete interpretation of the process of mobility across socio …-spatial structures. We use the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) to classify neighbourhoods defined as small areas containing …
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This paper uses the pupil census in England to explore how family house moves contribute to school and residential segregation. We track the moves of a single cohort as it approaches the secondary school admission age. We also combine a number of cohorts and estimate a dynamic nonlinear model...
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, (e.g. moving people to more affluent neighbourhoods would make little difference), has modest effects on childrens …
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. The most severe problem is selection bias as a result of selective sorting into neighbourhoods. This paper argues that in …
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This paper examines two related but distinct phenomena in Canada: 1) The tendency for certain neighbourhoods to be … extent to which certain neighbourhoods, whether or not they have high rates of income poverty, suffer from multiple …
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The impact of living in an ethnic enclave on earnings growth of immigrants in Canada is examined using the 1981–2001 Censuses. Consistent with U.S. findings, enclaves are found to have a negative impact on the earnings growth of male immigrants. A negative impact is also found for female...
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For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...
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neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low …, and the spatial organisation of urban housing markets. Poverty, and living in poverty concentration neighbourhoods is … in deprived neighbourhoods and replacing them with housing for the middle classes. Such policies will not solve the …
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This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
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