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The impacts of students on Urban Areas. Mark Livingston, Moira Munro, Ivan Turok Glasgow University. Students in Cities: Context. Transient: Distinctive Numerically significant Census, 2001: Over 3% of pop. Policy towards continuing growth Financial support for students reduced.
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The impacts of students on Urban Areas Mark Livingston, Moira Munro, Ivan Turok Glasgow University
Students in Cities: Context • Transient: • Distinctive • Numerically significant • Census, 2001: Over 3% of pop. • Policy towards continuing growth • Financial support for students reduced
Research questions • Students as residents: • Lively, buzzy quarters • Degraded, deteriorated neighbourhoods • Students as workers: • Enhancing city competitiveness, productivity • Displacing local jobs.
Research questions • Students as residents: • Lively, buzzy quarters • Degraded, deteriorated neighbourhoods • Students as workers: • Enhancing city competitiveness, productivity • Displacing local jobs.
ti | pi-P| n D=∑ 2TP(1-P) i=1 Student neighbourhoods? • More students create more concentrated neighbourhoods. • Students are strongly residentially segregated: • Index of dissimilarity:
Rapid Residential Turnover Unstable, lack of cohesion etc.
Student as workers. • Patterns of work vary: • Increasing term time working (40%) • Long hours: • 20% < 10hrs • 25% 10-15 hrs • 1/3 20hrs+ • Concentrated: • Entry level positions • 38% retail; 18% hotels and catering • Bring advantages to employers. • Flexibility • Personal qualities.
Conclusions: • Students significant as residents. • Students seem to be able to get jobs when they want • But probably easier in buoyant labour markets • No evidence of displacement at aggregate level • But tight concentration • Enable changing working practices?