 A Danish Tale of Why Social Mix Is So Difficult to IncreaseGunvor Christensen Housing Studies, 2015, vol. 30, issue 2, 252-271 Abstract: One of the political expectations to area-based intervention is to reduce the number of deprived neighbourhoods by increasing social mix. This paper considers the impact of area-based intervention on social mix in deprived neighbourhoods. We apply a difference-in-difference model to estimate the effect using Danish longitudinal data on individual level for 1989-2006. We find that area-based intervention has no significant effect on social mix neither in respect to mix of educational background, employment mix, income mix nor ethnic mix. Instead, we find a strong residential selection as residents moving out of treated neighbourhoods have a Danish origin, a stronger affiliation to labour market and a higher disposable income compared to residents moving in treated neighbourhoods. This demonstrates that residents moving in are more socio-economically vulnerable than those residents moving out. We conclude that area-based intervention becomes shorthanded when it comes to increasing social mix because area-based intervention is up against a strong residential selection in moving pattern. Date: 2015 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:30:y:2015:i:2:p:252-271 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.982519 Access Statistics for this article Housing Studies is currently edited by Chris Leishman, Moira Munro, Ray Forrest, Alex Schwartz, Hal Pawson and John Flint More articles in Housing Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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