Browsing Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi by Author "Wessel, Terje"

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  • Business Services, Income Inequality, and Income Segregation in Metropolitan Areas: Direct and Indirect Links 
    Wessel, Terje (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This article investigates business services employment as a driver of income segregation. Theory and intuition suggest that two pathways operate simultaneously. First, business services are marked by huge internal ...
  • Homeowner-renter wealth inequalities and position in the rural-urban hierarchy 
    Galster, George; Wessel, Terje (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Prior scholarship has documented and tried to explain growing inequalities in individual wealth holdings—especially between homeowners and renters—but has not considered the role of residential position in the rural-urban ...
  • Housing market filtering in the Oslo region:pro-market housing policies in a Nordic welfare state context 
    Magnusson Turner, Lena; Wessel, Terje (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Vacancy chain theory suggests that mobility opportunities spread within and between specific states, typically flowing from attractive to less attractive units, with households moving in the opposite direction. We explore ...
  • Intraurban geographies of car sharing supply and demand in Greater Oslo, Norway 
    Hjorteset, Mari Andrine; Böcker, Lars; Røe, Per Gunnar; Wessel, Terje (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    This paper examines urban patterns of car sharing supply and demand at neighbourhood level. By using literature on spatial inequality and unequal mobility access, we provide new insights into the urban geographies of car ...
  • Mixed neighbourhoods and native out-mobility in the Oslo region: the importance of parenthood 
    Wessel, Terje; Nordvik, Viggo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The extent to which the native-born population accept living in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods is receiving more and more attention throughout Europe. The Norwegian debate around this topic started in the 1990s and tends to ...
  • Population dynamics and ethnic geographies in Oslo: the impact of migration and natural demographic change on ethnic composition and segregation 
    Wessel, Terje; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Nordvik, Viggo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    This paper explores demographic processes behind ethnic geographies in Oslo. We compare data for census tracts in 2001 and 2011, and decompose ethnic composition and segregation on local mobility, national migration, ...
  • Raising children in the inner city: still a mismatch between housing and households? 
    Wessel, Terje; Lunke, Erik Bjørnson (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Recent research suggests that inner-city parents have become more loyal to urban living. If this is true, it is certainly good news for compact-city policies, which incorporate residential stability as part of the package. ...
  • Reproduction of social inequality through housing: a three-generational study from Norway 
    Wessel, Terje; Galster, George (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The means through which socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations has long been of central interest to scholarship on inequality. We explore multi-generational reproduction of socioeconomic status through ...
  • Samfunnsgeografi: En innføring 
    Jordhus-Lier, David; Stokke, Kristian; Bern, Aleksander; Tollefsen, Andreas Forø; Sandell, Aron; Sæther, Bjørnar; Selboe, Elin; Sæther, Elin; Knutsen, Hege Merethe; Sørreime, Hege; Haugen, Heidi Østbø; Hesselberg, Jan; Garcia-Godos, Jemina; Carling, Jørgen; O'Brien, Karen; Ulsrud, Kirsten; Böcker, Lars; Millstein, Marianne; Gleiss, Marielle Stigum; Erdal, Marta Bivand; Gentile, Michael; Nordbø, Milda Jonusaite; Røe, Per Gunnar; Wessel, Terje (Book / Bok / Published version; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Samfunnsgeografi er studiet av samfunnets romlighet. Som student i samfunnsgeografi utvikler du din geografiske forestillingsevne og blir i stand til å forstå betydningen av det geografiske i samfunnet rundt deg. Denne ...
  • The migration pathway to economic mobility: Does gender matter? 
    Wessel, Terje; Magnusson Turner, Lena (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Inter-regional migration is conventionally seen as an important path to economic mobility. We investigate this proposition for Norway, focusing on earnings rank in the 1974 birth cohort. Our data include migrations and ...