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- Alm Fjellborg, Andreas, 1982-
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Housing tenure and residential mobility in Stockholm 1990-2014
- 2018
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this thesis the links between housing tenure, income and selective, segregation generating, residential mobility are explored. The development of these links is analysed against the background of housing regime changes in Stockholm between 1990 and 2014. Housing policy changes in Sweden, and Stockholm, promote ownership through, for instance, housing tenure conversions and the tax-system. What this development means for residential mobility trends and may mean for ethnic and economic segregation is explored in three articles. Paper 1 contrasts two time periods and provides an analysis of residential mobility and economic sorting. It is shown that the socioeconomic composition of movers is relatively stable over time while the increasingly owner dominated housing market in Stockholm contributes to stronger socio-spatial residential patterns through the strengthened economic sorting of movers across the whole income scale. Paper 2 has a focus on ethnic and socioeconomic differences in out-mobility from poor neighbourhoods. The findings indicate that foreign background residents are dependent upon housing wealth and income to be able to leave poor neighbourhoods when they move, while the Swedish background group has a variety of resources at their disposal when they move. Paper 3 analyses how housing tenure affects moving, and movers' destinations, in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of non-western foreign-born residents in Stockholm. By comparing two cohorts (1993-2000 and 2001-2008) it is analysed how this relationship develops over time. Housing tenure and income do not seem to be pivotal for who moves, but increasingly important for where movers end up. Results display ethnic differences and how the changing housing market in Stockholm reproduces ethnic segregation. Two main conclusions from the thesis are that (i) the changing housing regime in Stockholm produces stronger economic sorting of movers – this has been affected by the geographically, socioeconomically and ethnically uneven gains from the housing market transformations experienced over the last three decades. (ii) The residential mobility patterns and the economic stratification of residential mobility opportunities that the reconfiguration of Stockholm’s housing market gives rise to increases the economic, political and social marginalization of neighbourhoods characterized by low income levels and high shares of foreign-born residents. Combating ethnic segregation is today even more closely related to the socioeconomic differences between the foreign-born and native-born parts of the population.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Achieving lively, creative and successful university environments
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2002-0317. ; 6:3, s. 179-192
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- With the advent of the knowledge era, academia has begun to play new roles in society. As a result, requirements for the design of universities may also change. Milieus of lively and flourishing urban life that foster encounters and unforeseen collaborations within academia – as well as between academia and society at large – have been called for. In this research, a GIS analysis of Swedish register data shows that such mixed environments are limited to the university facilities situated within city centres. However, both new and abandoned locations are more mixed than average. Based on a literature review, we argue that university planners need a clear priority ranking of their objectives, as different objectives may call for different kinds of design. Moreover, the review reveals that other environmental qualities have also been ascribed importance to success. In general, the existing literature provides limited guidance to designers, due to a lack of consensus and because the actual effects of specific measures are less researched than stated perceptions. Thus, so far, the contemporary direction in university design has limited expressions in Sweden, has unclear – and potentially conflicting – objectives and is based on insufficient empirical knowledge.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-, et al.
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Back to the city : internal return migration to metropolitan regions in Sweden
- 2013
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In: Environment and planning A. - : SAGE Publications. - 0308-518X .- 1472-3409. ; 45:10, s. 2477-2494
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Longitudinal microdata on the Swedish population, 1990-2006, are used to examine the numbers and characteristics of internal return migrants, emphasizing Sweden's three largest cities. Our study indicates that metropolitan regions are gaining population from net return migration, which thus carries people in the same direction as does most internal migration. Evidence also indicates that returnees to metropolitan regions are more likely to stay permanently than are migrants returning elsewhere. Furthermore, return migrants to metropolitan regions are distinguished from other return migrants in ways that emphasize the advantages of these regions, higher incomes and levels of education being among the pronounced attributes. However, metro-bound returnees do not have as many children as do other return migrants.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Do Rural Districts Die When Their Schools Close? : Evidence from Sweden around 2000.
- 2012
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In: Educational Planning. - 0315-9388. ; 20:3, s. 47-60
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the continued existence of many rural schools is being threatened. It has often been suggested that the closure of a rural school renders the area it serves less attractive, and can prejudice in-migration and encourage out-migration as the school is often expected to have more functions than the mere provision of basic education. In this paper, using, geographically detailed population data, no significant such effects on migration patterns can be demonstrated, either in the immediate surroundings of the school or in its wider catchment area. These results remain even if the migrants being considered are limited to families with children (a group expected to be particularly affected by school closures).
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Food deserts in Sweden? : Access to food retail in 1998 and 2008
- 2017
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In: Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. - : WILEY. - 0435-3684 .- 1468-0467. ; 99:1, s. 94-105
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Using an approach that is as unprejudiced as possible, this study sets out to examine people's access to food shops in Sweden. The focus is particularly on disadvantaged groups in the population, since it has been suggested that their increased frequency of welfare diseases (e.g. obesity or diabetes) may be explained by deficient access to healthy foods. It is established that disadvantaged groups generally have shorter distances to food shops than the general population. Disadvantaged groups are also not hit harder than others by changes in accessibility. Nonetheless, it is possible to identify a number of geographical concentrations of disadvantaged people with longer than average distances to the nearest food shop. Besides that, access to car(s) appears to be higher in the types of areas where the distance to food shops tends to be longer.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Hur bra fungerar SAMS-områdena i studier av grannskapseffekter? : En studie av SAMS-områdenas homogenitet
- 2012
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In: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 19:2, s. 93-115
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- År 1994 lanserades SAMS-indelningen som alltsedan dess har använts i svenska studier av grannskapseffekter. Här visas att dessa områden inte är så homogena som det ibland förutsätts eller som de skulle kunna vara och att indelningen ser olika ut i olika kommuner. Förklaringar till den bristande homogeniteten söks i städers morfologi och indelningens tillkomsthistoria.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Searching for new ways to achieve mixed neighbourhoods
- 2022
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In: Cities. - : Elsevier. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 121
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the relationship between housing mix and population mix, which is often assumed to exist in social mix policies. As urban form has been suggested as an alternative factor related to population mix, this feature is also considered. In Sweden, one of the main ways to achieve population mix is through housing mix by the densification of already established neighbourhoods. Thus, a salt-and-pepper-like housing mix policy has emerged, which has been adopted to various extents by the (in this respect, rather autonomous) municipalities. Accordingly, in the present study, the grades of mixes are calculated at a detailed geographical level using an entropy index, and then aggregated to the 124 urban (≥10,000 inhabitants) localities in Sweden. However, correlations between the urban localities' grades of housing/tenure mixes and population mixes cannot be found. Yet, significant correlations can be established between urban form and urban localities' various population mixes. Therefore, it is argued that urban form deserves more attention in future studies of population mix. Future research on both population mix and its extension, mix policies, may benefit from more consideration of urban contexts.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Socialbidragstagares flytt mellan storstad och avfolkningsbygd : Social dumpning eller problemanhoppning i förorten?
- 2021
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In: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 28:1, s. 29-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The patterns of internal migration in Sweden among people on social benefits have been much debated in newspapers and in other general debates around the year 2020, but the knowledge base in this field is limited. Based on register data, this study concludes that people supported by social benefits are more prone to move, although their deviation from the general pattern is decreasing; that the net redistribution brings social beneficiaries from municipalities with decreasing populations to the big cities rather than the other way around, and certainly so among people of foreign background; that long-term social beneficiaries who move in the other direction have an increased likelihood to move on; and that the net pattern remains also when the effects of other attributes on migration are controlled for in a regression model. Thus, the migration pat-terns among long-term social beneficiaries hint mainly at a “social import” to the big cities from municipalities with decreasing populations, rather than the opposite.
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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Sveriges måttfulla urbanisering
- 2017
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In: Stad och land. - Stockholm : Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stifteklse för allmännyttiga ändamål. - 9789197958820 ; , s. 39-46
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Amcoff, Jan, 1966-
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The geographical redistribution of retail outlets in Sweden 1998–2008
- 2016
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In: International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-3969 .- 1466-4402. ; 26:3, s. 242-259
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Detailed descriptive data are used to analyse the geographical redistribution of different kinds of retail. It is shown that in 2008, town centres generally still had a strong position as retail centres, although many small towns (including their centres) had been depleted of their retailers during the previous 10 years. Locations in built-up areas, outside of retail agglomerations, seem to be most affected by ‘shop death’. A diffuse tendency to dispersion, countering the general trend towards concentration, can be observed in rural areas. Shops specialised in durable goods are leaving town centres everywhere, no matter whether large out-of-town developments are established or not. There are also indications that the customer base necessary for a shop to make a profit has increased. These findings fit well with established explanations and underpin the insight that the growth of out-of-town developments is a symptom of restructuring forces, rather than a cause of restructuring.
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- Brännlund, Anton, et al.
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Jolts at the ballot box : Electricity prices and voting in Swedish manufacturing communities
- 2024
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In: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 110
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This research examines the overlooked political implications of energy pricing on voting patterns in manufacturing communities, amidst increasing scholarly interest in the political ramifications of Western industrial decline. We focus specifically on the surge in electricity prices and their effect on electoral choices in manufacturing -dense regions in Sweden during the 2022 general elections. The rise in electricity costs holds particular significance given Europe's reliance on imported energy for competitive manufacturing, coupled with the existing constraints on energy supply. With energy prices being a direct threat to industries and influencing the competitiveness of manufacturing firms and job security, we argue that these factors could significantly influence voting behaviour in affected communities. Our findings show that areas with higher electricity costs witnessed a more robust performance by the incumbent Social Democratic Party, suggesting that economic insecurity may indeed spur greater demand for traditional left-wing policies, such as economic compensation.
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- Hartig, Terry, 1959-, et al.
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Associations between greenspace and mortality vary across contexts of community change : a longitudinal ecological study
- 2020
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In: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. - : BMJ. - 0143-005X .- 1470-2738. ; 74:6, s. 534-540
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Background Concerns about loss of greenspace with urbanisation motivate much research on nature and health; however, contingency of greenspace-health associations on the character of community change remains understudied.Methods With aggregate data from governmental sources for 1432 Swedish parishes, we used negative binomial regression to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality during 2000–2008 in relation to percentage area (in 2000) of urban residential greenspace, urban parks and rural greenspace, looking across parishes with decrease, stability or increase in population density. We also assessed interactions between land use and population change.Results Parishes with ≥1 decile increase in population density had lower incidence of all-cause (IRR=0.91, 95% CI 0.87 to 0.95) and CVD mortality (IRR=0.89, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.94) compared with parishes with stable populations. In stable parishes, all-cause mortality was lower with higher percentages of urban green (IRR=0.998, 95% CI 0.996 to 1.000) and rural green land uses (IRR=0.997, 95% CI 0.996 to 0.999). These results were inverted in densifying parishes; higher all-cause mortality attended higher initial percentages of urban (IRR=1.081, 95% CI 1.037 to 1.127) and rural greenspace (IRR=1.042, 95% CI 1.007 to 1.079) as measured in 2000. Similar associations held for CVD mortality.Conclusions More greenspace was associated with lower all-cause and CVD mortality in communities with relatively stable populations. In densifying communities, population growth per se may reduce mortality, but it may also entail harm through reductions in amount per capita and/or quality of greenspace.
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- Möller, Peter, et al.
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Tourism’s localised population effect in the rural areas of Sweden
- 2018
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-2250 .- 1502-2269. ; :1, s. 39-55
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines how population change among young adults in rural areas is affected when tourism is the dominant industry. The relation between tourism and population change is often implicitly assumed but has not been well examined on a broader societal level. Existing studies have indicated that the effect of tourism on population change is limited in geographical range, and therefore a fine geographical resolution is useful. This analysis is based on yearly information on each individual who resided in Sweden in any year between 1990 and 2010, with 100-metre grid cells as the finest geographical resolution. Since young adults constitute a large part of all migration that takes place, they are the focus of this study. The findings show that the net population change among young adults is clearly more positive in tourism-dominated areas (TDAs) than in non-TDAs, and this becomes more significant the more remote the areas. Further, there is a better gender balance and a younger population in TDAs. Stayers and return migrants can partly explain the positive population change in TDAs, but as shown in previous research, there is a higher turnover of population in TDAs, and in-migration seems to be the key to positive population change.
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