journal article Jan 01, 2010

Path Dependency and the Neighbourhood Effect: Urban Poverty in Impoverished Neighbourhoods in Chinese Cities

Abstract
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.
Topics

No keywords indexed for this article. Browse by subject →

References
53
[1]
Appleton S (2007)
[10]
Friedrichs J (1998)
[15]
Hussain A (2003)
[16]
Jargowsky P A (1997)
[17]
Jencks C (1992)
[18]
Jencks C (1990)
[20]
Lewis O (1969)
[23]
Li S (2006)
[28]
Native Place, Migration and the Emergence of Peasant Enclaves in Beijing

Laurence J. C. Ma, Biao Xiang

The China Quarterly 10.1017/s0305741000049997
[33]
NSB (2007)
[43]
Wacquant L (2007)
[46]
Wilson W J (1987)
[48]
(2007)

Showing 50 of 53 references

Metrics
57
Citations
53
References
Details
Published
Jan 01, 2010
Vol/Issue
42(1)
Pages
134-152
License
View
Cite This Article
Fulong Wu, Shenjing He, Chris Webster (2010). Path Dependency and the Neighbourhood Effect: Urban Poverty in Impoverished Neighbourhoods in Chinese Cities. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 42(1), 134-152. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4264
Related

You May Also Like