Integration conference "My home, our home: what unites us in a multicultural community" on 15th and 16th November in Tallinn, Estonia. Conference webpage: www.integrationconference.ee

1. Tiit Tammaru
What leads to perfect
segregation?

2. Dynamic Segregation Model by
Thomas C Schelling (1969)
Mixed population Preference-based
sorting
Segregated population

3. Segregation in
different life
domains is
related
EducationWork Education
Residence

4. Other
Group level segregation occurs on multiple
reasons as a result of individual level sorting
Skills Homophily Discrimination

5. Segregation between the
Top and Bottom SES groups
Inequality trends reversed in the 1980s
Top 10% income share, 1915–2015
Source: Global Inequality Report 2018

6. Segregation between the
Top and Bottom SES groups
0
10
20
30
40
50 Riga
Oslo
Prague
Vilnius
Helsinki
Tallinn
Budapest
Stockholm
Athens
Madrid
Amsterdam
London
Milan
IndexofDissimilarity
2001
Medium
Low
High

7. Segregation between the
Top and Bottom SES groups
0
10
20
30
40
50
Riga
Oslo
Prague
Vilnius
Helsinki
Tallinn
Budapest
Stockholm
Athens
Madrid
Amsterdam
London
Milan
IndexofDissimilarity
2001 2011
Medium
Low
High

8. Key drivers of inequality in Europe:
Globalisation and Technology
Less skills More skills

9. Less skills More skills
Global hunt
for
Talent
Key drivers of inequality in Europe:
Globalisation and Technology

10. Less skills More skills
Global
competition
Global hunt
for
Talent
Key drivers of inequality in Europe:
Globalisation and Technology

11. Top SES
neighbourhoods
Middle SES
neighbourhoods
Bottom SES
neighbourhoods
Low socioecnomic inequality
Low socioeconomic segregation
Top SES
neighbourhoods
Middle SES
neighbourhoods
Bottom SES
neighbourhoods
High socioeconomic inequality
High socioeconomic segregation
Socio-spatialmobility
Low income inequality: Low income inequality:

12. Residence
Education
Work
Vicious circle of segregation:

13. Factors leading to perfect
segregation:
 High level of income inequality
 Inter-generational transmission of poverty
 High immigration focussing on labour needs
 Low level of public interventions
 Existence of homogenous neighbourhoods
in the city

14. What about Estonia?:
 Income inequality has increased significantly
 Share of ethnic minorities is high
 Kids are segregated from age three to
different educational systems
 School segregation transmits to the labour
market
 Differences on the labour market are
transmitting to the housing market

15. Thank you!
tiit.tammaru@ut.ee: