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Cheng Boon Ong
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Position: ESPP Fellow
Email address: cheng.ong@governance.unimaas.nl
Educational Background
September 2007 MSc Social Policy
Analysis, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Master thesis topic: Reconciling
Family Life and Work – Mothers of
Young Children in Denmark, France,
Ireland and Italy
Research Interest
Aside from regulating the movement
of people across state borders, the
social integration of people within
state borders is steadily gaining
prominence. One of such policy
concern relates to neighbourhood
residential segregation. In Western
Europe, despite vacillating
empirical results on the
“neighbourhood effect” or the
independent effect of living in a
segregated neighbourhood,
residential segregation is still an
indicator of social exclusion and
cohesion in a society, amongst other
things, to policymakers. With that,
housing policies remain an important
policy instrument to prevent the
spatial concentration of specific,
usually disadvantaged, social groups.
Exploring the rich spatial and
neighbourhood-level data resources
in the Netherlands, this research
aims to explain urban neighbourhood
segregation as outcomes of
neighbourhood-level migratory
processes, i.e. by incorporating
demographic, economic-geographical (e.g.
commuting time) and sociological (e.g.
ethnic preference) explanatory
variables that influence one’s
decision to relocate. Using these
estimated parameters and micro-data,
it is then possible to simulate the
distributional impact of urban
restructuring policies (which alter
the housing stock mix) at the
neighbourhood-level. These policies
are incident on households with
different characteristics and by
taking into account the existing
distribution of household subgroups
across neighbourhoods, one can
examine the efficiency of
social-mixing housing polices in
actually reducing overall
segregation.
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