Relationship between income inequality and residential segregation between socioeconomic groups

The research leading to these results received funding from the Estonian Research Council [Institutional Research grant numbers PUT PRG306 and IUT2-17, projects Infotechnological Mobility Laboratory and RITA-Ränne]; and the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007- 2013)/ERC [grant agreement number 615159] (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-Spatial Inequality, Deprived Neighbourhoods, and Neighbourhood Effects).This paper provides new insights into the relationships between income inequality and residential segregation between socioeconomic groups by undertaking a comparative study of European urban regions. In Europe, income inequalities are the lowest in North Europe and the highest in South Europe. In many East European countries, a switch from low inequality to high inequality has taken place. The main findings show that changes in the levels of residential segregation between socioeconomic groups correlate to changes in the levels of income inequality found approximately 10 years earlier, that is, with a time lag.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe