Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in European Cities

Inequality, residential segregation by income, and mortality in US cities.

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study was designed to discover whether the relation between income inequality and population death rates within the United States was mediated by the degree of residential segregation between rich and poor. DESIGN Using data for 276 metropolitan areas in the USA, residential segregation was defined as the extent to which people with different levels of income live in the ...

Income inequality and economic residential segregation.

Income inequality and income segregation.

This article investigates how the growth in income inequality from 1970 to 2000 affected patterns of income segregation along three dimensions: the spatial segregation of poverty and affluence, race-specific patterns of income segregation, and the geographic scale of income segregation. The evidence reveals a robust relationship between income inequality and income segregation, an effect that i...

Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities

Growing inequalities in Europe, even in the most egalitarian countries, are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. Surprisingly, though, there is a lack of systematic and representative research on the spatial dimension of rising inequalities. This gap is filled by our book project Socio-Economic Segregation in European Ca...

The Effect of Income Inequality and Residential Segregation on Infectious Diseases Transmission

Since the 1980s, income inequality and residential segregation have increased in industrialized and developing countries. There is a body of literature that hypothesizes and examines the relationship between inequality and segregation on health. However, none of these studies constructs a mathematical model to explain these complex linkages. This project builds a theoretical behavioral model th...