Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Maarten van Ham (m.vanham@tudelft.nl), David Manley (d.manley@bristol.ac.uk) and Tiit Tammaru (tiit.tammaru@ut.ee)
Additional contact information
Maarten van Ham: Delft University of Technology
David Manley: University of Bristol
Tiit Tammaru: University of Tartu

No 15153, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual outcomes in terms of health, education, work and income, and general well-being amongst other outcomes. In this commentary, we provide an overview of the literature on spatial inequalities and on contextual and neighbourhood effects. We address some of the main challenges in modelling contextual effects and provide evidence that no single study can definitively provide the answer to the question whether – and how much – spatial context effects are relevant for understanding individual outcomes. It is only when taken together that the rich body of research on spatial context effects shows convincingly that spatial context effects are relevant. The commentary ends with the presentation of the vicious circle of the segregation model and suggest some ways in which this vicious circle of spatial inequality and segregation can be broken.

Keywords: neighbourhood effects; segregation; spatial inequality; spatial context effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 J60 P46 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2022-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-hea and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published - published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3 (S1), i634-i641

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp15153.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15153

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany
library@iza.org

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte (hinte@iza.org).