Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in European Cities

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Authors
  • T. Tammaru
  • A. Sinitsyna
  • A. Akhavizadegan
  • M. van Ham
Publication date 2021
Host editors
  • G. Pryce
  • Y.P. Wang
  • Y. Chen
  • J. Shan
  • H. Wei
Book title Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China
Book subtitle Towards a New Dialogue
ISBN
  • 9783030745431
  • 9783030745462
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783030745448
Series The Urban Book Series
Chapter 3
Pages (from-to) 39-54
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
Based on extensive research with distinguished scholars within the book project ‘Socioeconomic Segregation in European Capital Cities’, this chapter summarizes the key trends in income inequality and socioeconomic segregation in Europe. We draw our data from the two last census rounds, and we focus on the most common indicators of income inequality (Gini Index) and residential segregation (Dissimilarity Index). We find that levels of residential segregation grew between the two last censuses in most of the cities included in our study. Changes in residential segregation follow changes in income inequality with a time lag, and it tends to happen in both directions. Low levels of income inequality relate to low levels of segregation after 10 years, and high levels of inequality relate to high levels of segregation after 10 years.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74544-8_3
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