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Segregation across neighborhoods in a small city

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  • Lee, Shu En
  • Lim, Jing Zhi
  • Shen, Lucas

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Social segregation has profound impacts on socioeconomic outcomes. Using anonymized GPS records for Singapore which we spatially join to census records, we examine daily movement across geographically-refined neighborhoods. We show that the GPS-derived data detect segregation by poverty, even with an imperfect proxy, and in the presence of targeted urban policies aimed at social integration. The findings bode well for the use of GPS data in general to measure social segregation.

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  • Lee, Shu En & Lim, Jing Zhi & Shen, Lucas, 2021. "Segregation across neighborhoods in a small city," MPRA Paper 115318, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    social segregation; GPS; mobile phone data; Singapore; mobility;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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