Unravelling the Global City Debate on Social Inequality: A Firm-level Analysis of Wage Inequality in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Waal, JC van der; Burgers, J.

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“…Moretti (2012) and Sassen (1991Sassen ( , 2014 postulated that post-industrial economies in global cities go together with a concentration of the high-paid and low paid workers. Because of the transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a post-industrial economy characterized by a knowledge-based economy, the composition of the employed population changed (Burgers & Musterd, 2002;Florida, 2002;Hamnett, 2003;Van der Waal & Burgers, 2009) and spatial segregation of the employed population increased (Boterman et al, 2018;Florida & Mellander, 2018). Economic activities requiring face-to-face contact, such as in the financial, creative, and public sectors, have increased in the core of larger cities, whereas labor-intensive manufacturing in smaller towns and cities has declined over the years.…”

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Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

2020

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In this contribution, we analyze residential segregation not just on the basis of dimenions of migration background and income but also according to educational level, class fractions, labor market status, and the employment sector. We use individual-level geocoded data for the entire population of the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam to analyze residential orientations of households at eight different neighborhood types based on different levels of social mix, taking into account their employment sector, their age, educational attainment, income, type of contract, and migration background. We find that segregation based on income is relatively moderate but segregation on the basis of migration background and educational attainment level is relatively high. Multinomial regression models show that different class fractions are oriented to very different residential milieus. We conclude that a combination of dimensions of social positions yields a more nuanced and better conceptual framework for understanding the social geographies of urban areas.

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Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

2020

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“…According to Moretti () and Sassen (, ), post‐industrial economies are characterised by a rise in high‐paid and low‐paid work at the expense of middle incomes, especially in global cities. This process, referred to as social polarisation, has been one of the central themes in explaining spatial patterns in cities (Hamnett, ; Tai, ; Van der Waal & Burgers, ; Walks, ). Social polarisation is not, however, the only way in which social class change has been understood.…”

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Understanding the social geographies of urban regions through the socio‐economic and cultural dimension of class

Boterman

Manting

Musterd

2017

Population Space and Place

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Economic restructuring and changing demographic and migration patterns have significantly altered the population compositions of urban regions. Whereas there is evidence that employees in various sectors of the economy have different residential preferences, there exists much less insight into the social geography of various class fractions at the level of urban regions. The aims of this paper are (1) to describe the spatial orientations of various employment groups in the largest urban regions in the Netherlands and (2) to understand the extent to which spatial orientations towards various residential urban and suburban milieus can be explained by belonging to a specific class fraction. We draw on individual-level register data for the whole population of urban regions, applying a multidimensional and detailed perspective on social class that takes into account both economic and cultural capital. We demonstrate a strong urban orientation among the cultural classes, who are often working in the new economies-irrespective of their income status-and an over-representation in suburban areas of more economically orientated class fractions. Despite the differences in terms of economic structure of the researched urban regions, these variegated residential orientations are remarkably consistent.

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“…In one of the few UK studies on this topic, McCulloch (2003) finds that local employment growth is associated with a higher probability of exiting poverty. At the same time, there has also been increasing concern about growing inequality nationally (Piketty, 2014) and in cities with strong economies (Bolton & Breau, 2011;Lupton et al, 2013;van der Waal & Burgers, 2009).…”

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Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

Lee

Sissons

2016

Environ Plan A

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There is growing concern in many developed economies that the benefits of economic growth are not shared equitably. This is particularly the case in the UK, where economic growth has been geographically uneven and often biased towards already affluent cities. Yet there is relatively little evidence on the relationship between growth and poverty in the UK. This paper addresses this gap with an analysis of the links between economic growth and poverty in British cities between 2000 -2008. We find little evidence that output growth reduced poverty. While growth was associated with wage increases at the top of the distribution, it was not associated with wage growth below the median. And there was no relationship between economic growth and the low skilled employment rate. These results suggest that growth in this period was far from inclusive.

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Unravelling the Global City Debate on Social Inequality: A Firm-level Analysis of Wage Inequality in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

Understanding the social geographies of urban regions through the socio‐economic and cultural dimension of class

Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

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