Path Dependency and the Neighbourhood Effect: Urban Poverty in Impoverished Neighbourhoods in Chinese Cities
Path Dependency and the Neighbourhood Effect: Urban Poverty in Impoverished Neighbourhoods in Chinese Cities
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10.1068/a4264
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2010-01
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Fulong Wu;Shenjing He;C. Webster
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作者：
Fulong Wu;Shenjing He;C. Webster
在本文中，我们研究了中国贫困社区的贫困集中度，并估计了家庭特征和社区类型对社会剥夺的影响。我们发现老城区的失业家庭是最贫困的家庭之一。中国的案例表明，城市贫困主要集中在居住在特定社区的特定社会群体。我们发现，邻里关系对中国贫困产生的影响虽小，但并非微不足道。生活在贫困社区会以稳定的百分比增加变穷的可能性。贫困率每增加 1%，贫困率就会增加 4.4%。在控制人口和社会经济属性的情况下，居住在老旧社区且失业的几率会增加 4.7 倍。中国案例中的邻里效应与制度衍生的不平等的路径依赖有关。
In this paper we examine poverty concentration in Chinese impoverished neighbourhoods and estimate the effects of household characteristics and neighbourhood types on social deprivation. We find that unemployed households in old neighbourhoods are among the most deprived. The Chinese case suggests that urban poverty is concentrated by particular social groups living in specific neighbourhoods. We find a small but not insignificant neighbourhood effect on poverty generation in China. Living in impoverished neighbourhoods increases the probability of becoming poor by a steady percentage. For every 1% increase in poverty rate, the chance is raised by 4.4%. Living in old neighbourhoods and being unemployed raises the chance by 4.7 times with demographic and socioeconomic attributes controlled for. The neighbourhood effect in the Chinese case is linked to path dependency of institutionally derived inequalities.