Poor places, poor prospects? Counterfactual models of neighbourhood effects on social exclusion in Stockholm, Sweden

Urban Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2515-2537

  Brännström, Lars ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; WELFARE PROVISION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN; WORLD;

ALIA;

EID: 11144236905     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000294547     Document Type: Article

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