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Socioeconomic segregation in European capital cities. Increasing separation between poor and rich

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2017
Author
Musterd, Sako
Marcińczak, Szymon
Ham, Maarten van
Tammaru, Tiit
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
ERC-2013-CoG
Keywords
Socioeconomic segregation
Inequality
Capital cities
Europe
Comparative research
Census data
G Geography (General)
H Social Sciences (General)
NDAS
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Abstract
Socioeconomic inequality is on the rise in major European cities, as are concerns over it, since it is seen as a threat to social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper builds on a study of socioeconomic segregation in 12 European cities: Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, London, Madrid, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna, and Vilnius. Data used derive from national censuses and registers for 2001 and 2011. The main conclusion is that socioeconomic segregation has increased. This paper develops a rigorous multifactor approach to understand segregation and links it to four underlying, partially overlapping, structural factors: social inequalities, globalization and economic restructuring, welfare regimes, and housing systems. Taking into account contextual factors resulted in a better understanding of actual segregation levels, while introducing time lags between structural factors and segregation outcomes will likely further improve the theoretical model.
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Musterd , S , Marcińczak , S , Ham , M V & Tammaru , T 2017 , ' Socioeconomic segregation in European capital cities. Increasing separation between poor and rich ' , Urban Geography , vol. 38 , no. 7 , pp. 1062-1083 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1228371
Publication
Urban Geography
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1228371
ISSN
0272-3638
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The research leading to this paper has received funding from the Estonian Research Council (Institutional Research Grant IUT no. 2–17 on Spatial Population Mobility and Geographical Changes in Urban Regions); European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) /ERC Grant Agreement no. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial Inequality, Deprived Neighborhoods, and Neighborhood Effects); and from the Marie Curie programme under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) /Career Integration Grant no. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighborhood Choice, Neighborhood Sorting, and Neighborhood Effects); and direct funding from the Universities of Amsterdam and Lodz.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9523

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