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Who wants to leave the neighbourhood? The effect of being different from the neighbourhood population on wishes to move

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Date
05/2008
Author
Van Ham, Maarten
Feijten, P
Keywords
Residential-mobility
Segregation
Behavior
Outcomes
City
Deprivation
Preferences
Netherlands
Opportunity
Hypothesis
H Social Sciences (General)
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Abstract
Little attention has been paid to date to the role of the neighbourhood as a factor influencing residential mobility and the residential choice process. The question addressed here is to what extent neighbourhood characteristics (percentage of rented dwellings, low-income households, and ethnic minorities in the neighbourhood) influence different categories of residents to wish to leave their neighbourhood. The answer to this question can enhance our understanding of residential mobility and of the mechanisms causing segregation by income and ethnic groups. We use data from the 2002 Netherlands Housing Demand Survey, enriched with neighbourhood characteristics. Whether or not people wish to leave their neighbourhood is estimated using a multilevel logistic regression model with cross-level interaction effects between individual and neighbourhood characteristics. The main result shows that, with an increasing percentage of people from an ethnic minority in the neighbourhood, more people have the wish to leave the neighbourbood. However, this is to a lesser extent the case for members of ethnic minorities themselves.
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Van Ham , M & Feijten , P 2008 , ' Who wants to leave the neighbourhood? The effect of being different from the neighbourhood population on wishes to move ' , Environment and Planning A , vol. 40 , no. 5 , pp. 1151-1170 . https://doi.org/10.1068/a39179
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Environment and Planning A
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1068/a39179
ISSN
0308-518X
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 SAGE Publications. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a39179
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7978

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