Residential sorting and social mobility in New Zealand

Authors

  • Philip S Morrison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i2.4379

Keywords:

social mobility, New Zealand Index of Deprivation, census-based mobility patterns, New Zealand Household Labour Force Survey, relationship between place of residence and social assistance

Abstract

This article argues that the residential sorting process which confers advantages on those who can choose their residential environments may also deny such advantages to others. The policy question therefore is the degree to which residing in neighbourhoods with relatively high levels of deprivation lowers people’s prospects of social mobility.

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Policy Quarterly volume 7 number 2 2011

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2011-05-01

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2011): Policy Quarterly

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