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van Ham, M. (author), Tammaru, T. (author), de Vuijst, E. (author), Zwiers, M.D. (author)Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority background, can get cut off from important social...working paper 2016
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Zwiers, M.D. (author), van Ham, M. (author), Manley, D.J. (author)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 our understanding of pathways of ethnic...working paper 2016
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Being poorer than the rest of the neighbourhood: Relative deprivation and problem behaviour of youthNieuwenhuis, J.G. (author), van Ham, M. (author), Yu, Rongqin (author), Branje, Susan (author), Meeus, Wim (author), Hooimeijer, Pieter (author)According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths’ problem behaviour. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighbourhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioural problems in more affluent neighbourhoods. Much of this literature does...working paper 2016
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Palomares Linares, M.I. (author), van Ham, M. (author)The Spanish labour market is characterised by high levels of unemployment, which have increased during the global economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83% of households being owner-occupiers. Both regional levels of unemployment and homeownership are known to...working paper 2016
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Li, X. (author), van Ham, M. (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author)Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative connotation. This negative view overlooks the multifaceted...working paper 2016
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Kamenik, K. (author), Tammaru, T. (author), van Ham, M. (author)This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the residential neighbourhood, workplaces, leisure, etc.). Where most studies focus on residential segregation, this study focusses on ethnic segregation during leisure time. We investigate the most...working paper 2016
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Ubarevičienė, R. (author), van Ham, M. (author)Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy makers and planners. This study aims to get more insight into the recent processes of socio-spatial change and the role of...working paper 2016
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Li, X. (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author), van Ham, M. (author)Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to improve the living conditions of low-income residents. Between 2008 and 2012, about 12.6 million...working paper 2016
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Mägi, K. (author), Leetmaa, K (author), Tammaru, T. (author), van Ham, M. (author)Background: Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments which differ in terms of their ethnic composition from those in which the...journal article 2016
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Nieuwenhuis, J.G. (author), Hooimeijer, P. (author), Van Ham, M. (author), Meeus, W. (author)In the literature examining neighbourhood effects on educational outcomes, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often assumed. We attempt...journal article 2016
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Van Ham, M. (author), Tammaru, T. (author)Ethnic segregation has most often been studied at the place of residence, segregation being defined on the basis of the relative presence of different groups within city neighbourhoods. It is increasingly recognized, however, that segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the workplace, leisure, social media, etc.), the...journal article 2016
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Tammaru, T. (author), Strömgren, M. (author), Van Ham, M. (author), Danzer, A.M. (author)Contemporary cities are becoming more and more diverse in population as a result of immigration. Research shows that while residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse within cities, residential segregation from natives has overall remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing the...journal article 2016
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van Ham, M. (author), Vogel, M.S. (author)This paper proposes a framework to assess how compositional differences at the neighborhood level contribute to the moderating effect of neighborhood context on the association between individual risk-factors and delinquency. We propose a neighborhoodbased group decomposition to partition person-context interactions into their constituent...working paper 2016
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Van Ham, M. (author), Tammaru, T. (author)The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential neighbourhoods. However, there is now a small, but growing, literature, which focusses on segregation in other domains of daily life where inter-ethnic...journal article 2016
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Van Kempen, R. (author), Bolt, G. (author), Van Ham, M. (author)Urban neighborhoods are still important in the lives of its residents. Therefore, it is important to find out how the recent global financial and economic crisis affects these neighborhoods. Which types of neighborhoods and which residents suffer more than others? This introduction provides an overview of the papers in this special feature that...journal article 2016
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Zwiers, M.D. (author), Bolt, G. (author), Van Ham, M. (author), Van Kempen, R. (author)Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variations in economic and political structures (including varieties in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development, and population composition, make it impossible to identify an ideal-type process of...journal article 2016
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Kleinhans, R.J. (author), Van Ham, M. (author)In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to lack key entrepreneurial attributes and skills. This paper reports a unique experiment in the Netherlands with nascent community enterprises which...journal article 2016
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Shrinking regions in a shrinking country: The geography of population decline in Lithuania 2001-2011Ubareviciene, R. (author), Van Ham, M. (author), Burneika, D. (author)Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in post-socialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on specific cities and regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the national level, and the local factors determining spatially uneven population change....journal article 2016
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Zwiers, M.D. (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author), van Ham, M. (author)The gap between wealthy and disadvantaged neighbourhoods seems to be increasing in many contemporary Western cities. Most studies of neighbourhood change focus on specific case-studies of neighbourhood downgrading or gentrification. Studies investigating socio-spatial polarisation in larger urban areas often compare neighbourhoods at two...journal article 2016