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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? Evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts

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Date
01/01/2020
Author
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap
Tammaru, Tiit
Van Ham, Maarten
Hedman, Lina
Manley, David
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
ERC-2013-CoG
Keywords
Income inequality
Segregation
Socio-spatial mobility
Disadvantaged neighbourhoods
International comparison
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
HT Communities. Classes. Races
3rd-DAS
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The neighbourhood in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhood types gives insight in the openness of spatial classs tructures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. In this paper we study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by socio-economic status in different inequality and segregation contexts in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom (England and Wales), and Estonia. The study is based on population registers and census data for the 2001-2011 period. For England and Wales, which has long had high levels of income inequalities and high levels of socio-economic segregation, we find that levels of mobility between neighbourhood types are low and opportunities to move to more socio-economically advantaged neighbourhoods are modest. In Estonia, which used to be one of the most equal and least segregated countries in Europe, and now is one of the most unequal countries, we find high levels of mobility, but these reproduce segregation patterns and it is difficult to move to less deprived neighbourhoods for those in the most deprived neighbourhoods. In the Netherlands and Sweden, where income inequalities are the smallest, it is the easiest to move from the most deprived to less deprived neighbourhoods. The conclusion is that the combination of high levels of income inequalities and high levels of spatial segregation tend to lead to a vicious circle of segregation for low income groups, where it is difficult to undertake upward socio-spatial mobility.
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Nieuwenhuis , J , Tammaru , T , Van Ham , M , Hedman , L & Manley , D 2020 , ' Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? Evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts ' , Urban Studies , vol. 57 , no. 1 , pp. 176-197 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018807628
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Urban Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018807628
ISSN
0042-0980
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16104

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