Who is affected by neighbourhood income mix? gender, age, family, employment and income differences

Urban Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2915-2944

  Galster, George ^a   Andersson, Roger ^b   Musterd, Sako ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 78650138376     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009360233     Document Type: Article

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