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Looking Beyond the Neighbourhood: Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in Swedish Metropolitan Areas, 1991-2010
In recent years, residential segregation has become a major issue in the Swedish policy debate. The prevailing view is that residential segregation is a crucial contributing factor for income inequality, since individual income prospects are thought to be influenced by the population characteristics of neighbourhoods of residence. This study focuses on the opposite direction of this causality and analyses the role of income inequality as an independent cause of residential segregation in Swedish metropolitan areas in the period 1991-2010. During this period, income inequality increased significantly. The widening of disparities between those in and out of employment contributed more than the widening of disparities between natives and immigrants to this development. The growth of residential segregation mirrored locally the general trend in income inequality. Income sorting processes also played a steadily more important role, and area-based initiatives did not succeed to counteract the tendency towards increased population homogeneity in neighbourhoods.
Looking Beyond the Neighbourhood: Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in Swedish Metropolitan Areas, 1991-2010
In recent years, residential segregation has become a major issue in the Swedish policy debate. The prevailing view is that residential segregation is a crucial contributing factor for income inequality, since individual income prospects are thought to be influenced by the population characteristics of neighbourhoods of residence. This study focuses on the opposite direction of this causality and analyses the role of income inequality as an independent cause of residential segregation in Swedish metropolitan areas in the period 1991-2010. During this period, income inequality increased significantly. The widening of disparities between those in and out of employment contributed more than the widening of disparities between natives and immigrants to this development. The growth of residential segregation mirrored locally the general trend in income inequality. Income sorting processes also played a steadily more important role, and area-based initiatives did not succeed to counteract the tendency towards increased population homogeneity in neighbourhoods.
Looking Beyond the Neighbourhood: Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in Swedish Metropolitan Areas, 1991-2010
Scarpa, Simone (author)
2015
Article (Journal)
English
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