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Divided cities : increasing socio-spatial polarization within large cities in the Netherlands
Zwiers, Merle; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
treat neighbourhoods as more or less static entities, but urban researchers are now increasingly interested in neighbourhood … debate on urban renewal programs by offering a unique viewpoint on longitudinal neighbourhood change. Our findings show a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488884
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The local determinants of crime victimization
Hémet, Camille - 2014
This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French victimization survey. The very local nature of the data enables me to tackle the endogenous location selection issue: once I control for the characteristics of a larger area into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476371
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The moderating effect of higher education on intergenerational spatial inequality
Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2015
the literature by examining to what extent educational attainment can break the link between parental neighbourhood … disadvantage and the neighbourhood experiences of children as adults up to 12 years after leaving the parental home. We use … neighbourhoods later in life than children who grew up in more affluent neighbourhoods. We find that intergenerational neighbourhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407794
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Inequality, reordering and divergent growth : processes of neighbourhood change in dutch cities
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2018
practices in analysing neighbourhood change, the roles of these underlying processes are unclear. This paper builds on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925323
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Well-being effects of self-employment : a spatial inquiry
Abreu, Maria; Öner, Özge; Brouwer, Aleid; Leeuwen, … - 2018
Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926106
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The roles of increasing inequality and divergent urban development in understanding spatial polarization in Tel-Aviv
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
Many studies of urban and neighbourhood change investigate changes in the relative positions of neighbourhoods within … mobility and recently applied in the context of neighbourhood change. The results show that urban processes and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776022
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Trajectories of neighborhood change : spatial patterns of increasing ethnic diversity
Zwiers, Merle; Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2016
Western cities are increasingly ethnically diverse and in most cities the share of ethnic minorities is growing. Studies analyzing changing ethnic geographies often limit their analysis to changes in ethnic concentrations in neighborhoods between two points in time. Such a static approach limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532589
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Natural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income
Lee, Sanghoon - 2013
We present theory and evidence highlighting the role of natural amenities in neighborhood dynamics, suburbanization, and variation across cities in the persistence of the spatial distribution of income. Our model generates three predictions that we confirm using a novel database of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071938
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Trajectories of Neighborhood Change : Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity
Zwiers, Merle - 2016
Western cities are increasingly ethnically diverse and in most cities the share of ethnic minorities is growing. Studies analyzing changing ethnic geographies often limit their analysis to changes in ethnic concentrations in neighborhoods between two points in time. Such a static approach limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983006
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Natural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income
Lee, Sanghoon - 2017
We present theory and evidence highlighting the role of natural amenities in neighborhood dynamics, suburbanization, and variation across cities in the persistence of the spatial distribution of income. Our model generates three predictions that we confirm using a novel database of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963235