Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson () and Torun Österberg ()
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Björn Anders Gustafsson: Göteborg University
Torun Österberg: University of Gothenburg

No 4881, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents’ low employment and to low parental education.

Keywords: child poverty; neighbourhood; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J13 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010-04
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Published - published in: Peter Saunders and Roy Sainsbury (eds.), Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries. International Studies on Social Security volume 16, Intersentia Publishing, 2010

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