Journal
POPULATION SPACE AND PLACE
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2399
Keywords
Australia; human capital; occupations; residential segregation
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- Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional [ECO2017-82241-R]
- Xunta de Galicia [ED431B2019/34]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course [CE140100027]
- University of Melbourne
- Brotherhood of St Laurence
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Recent changes in the spatial distribution and segregation of socio-economic groups in Australian major cities show a trend of increasing residential separation by education and occupation. This trend is characterized by the concentration of high-skilled groups in inner city areas and the overrepresentation of low-educated and low-status occupation groups in outer areas.
We study changes in the spatial distribution and segregation of socio-economic groups in Australia using a new data set with harmonised census data for 1991 and 2011. We find a general increase in residential segregation by education and occupation groups across the major capital cities in Australia. Importantly, these trends cannot be explained in general by changes in the demographic structure of groups and areas but rather by the rise in the over and underrepresentation of groups across areas. In particular, our analysis reveals clear diverging trends in the spatial configuration of high and low socio-economic groups as measured by their occupation and education. Whereas high-skilled groups became more concentrated in the inner parts of cities, the low-educated and those working in low-status occupations became increasingly overrepresented in outer areas. This pattern is observed in all five major capital cities, but it is especially marked in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
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