Socioeconomic status and long-term exposure to disadvantaged neighbourhoods in France

Haley McAvay

Urban Studies, 2020, vol. 57, issue 13, 2663-2680

Abstract: This paper uses a large-scale longitudinal data set from France over a 23-year period (1990–2013) to investigate the links between socioeconomic status and long-term exposure to disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The findings show that while local environments tend to be durable over the life course, higher income substantially reduces the risk of staying in spaces with high unemployment over time. The negative effect of income on the transmission of disadvantage is found regardless of immigrant background. However, a specific form of socio-spatial disadvantage is observed for low-income children of non-European immigrant(s), who experience a greater degree of exposure to high unemployment areas from childhood to adulthood than any other group. These findings make a new contribution to emerging research on intergenerational contextual mobility by documenting the moderating effect of income and immigrant origin on the transmission of spatial disadvantage.

Keywords: children of immigrants; France; intergenerational contextual mobility; neighbourhood effects; spatial disadvantage; ç§»æ°‘å­ å¥³; 法国; ä»£é™…çŽ¯å¢ƒæµ åŠ¨æ€§; 邻里效应; 空间劣势 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098019882338

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