Ethnic diversity and firm productivity in the Netherlands

2015 ◽  
pp. 397-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Möhlmann ◽  
Jessie Bakens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Firm Productivity

scholarly journals What do we read to our children? Messages concerning ethnic diversity in popular children’s books in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ymke de Bruijn ◽  
Rosanneke A. G. Emmen ◽  
Judi Mesman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Young Children ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Cultural Details

AbstractChildren’s books can create opportunities for children to see themselves as well as others in different settings and stories, but cultural details and specificity within these stories can play an important role in the messages that children take away. Therefore, the present study aims to provide insight in the messages concerning ethnic diversity and various cultures in a subset of popular books that Dutch young children are likely to be exposed to. Books aimed at young children that were sold or borrowed most often or were awarded between 2009 and 2018 in the Netherlands are examined through the combined lens of critical race theory and critical multicultural analysis. Specifically, books including a protagonist or secondary character of color were selected. The study provides insight in the degree of cultural specificity and cultural authenticity, as well as prevailing power relations between characters and ideologies that are portrayed within the books. Results indicate that while cultural stereotypes and ideologies including White supremacy and eurocentrism are found only in a few books, cultural details are generally lacking and colorblindness is common in books aimed at young children. The study therefore underlines the particular need for books that are culturally specific and include authentic cultural details, to improve the reflection of various cultures and experiences of characters of color.

scholarly journals Ethnic diversity and informal intra- and inter-ethnic contacts with neighbours in The Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Huijts ◽  
Gerbert Kraaykamp ◽  
Peer Scheepers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Diversity

Impact of Cultural “Ambiance” on the Spatial Distribution of Creative Professions

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karima Kourtit ◽  
Peter Nijkamp
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Spatial Dispersion ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Spatial Spread ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Cultural Ecological

Creativity has in recent years received much attention from the research community, in relation to both technological innovation and knowledge spillovers. In the same vein, the concept of a creative class and of a creative city has gained a rising popularity. The present study aims to investigate the impacts of the urban “ambiance” on the spatial dispersion of heterogeneous types of creative people over different urban agglomerations. To that end, creative people are classified according to their profession or job class into Bohemians, creative core, and creative professionals. This article, then, seeks to relate the presence of each of these groups to the cultural ambiance of a given locality beside other moderator variables. Next, an econometric model is constructed and applied to explain the spatial distribution of creative professions in the Netherlands. Our study first maps out the spatial spread of these three creative classes in the Netherlands. Next, the shares of these creative classes are related to cultural, ecological, ethnic, and geographic characteristics of Dutch municipalities. Our results show that Bohemians and people belonging to the creative core exhibit a specific spatial pattern: they appear to be overrepresented in municipalities with a relative overconcentration of culture, nature, and ethnic diversity and with a short distance to job places.

Dealing with Diverse Diversities: Defining and Comparing Minority Groups

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Kalter ◽  
Anthony Heath
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Generational Status ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Adolescent Population ◽  
Empirical Analyses

In this chapter we use the CILS4EU data to investigate the precise generational status and the origin countries of the adolescent population in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We describe the ethnic diversity in the study’s samples in more detail and show that it is very large in each of these countries. In addition, the composition of origin groups varies greatly across the four. This is a challenge for straight-forward comparisons between the countries, which is further complicated by the fact that generational status and origin countries are confounded. The chapter discusses the opportunities and limitations for the empirical analyses in the rest of the book. Basically, we argue for a strategy that regards country and group differences as phenomena of interest rather than of nuisance. They should be seen as descriptive facts and starting points of a search for explaining mechanisms.

Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1142-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Arribas-Bel ◽  
Jessie Bakens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Population Diversity ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
Neighbourhood Level

In this paper, we analyse the spatial dimension of changing ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level. Drawing from recent work on income convergence, we characterise the evolution of population diversity in the Netherlands over space. Our analysis is structured over three dimensions, which allow us to find clear spatial patterns in how cultural diversity changes at the neighbourhood level. Globally, we use directional statistics to visualise techniques of exploratory data analysis, finding a clear trend towards ‘spatially integrated change’: a situation where the trajectory of ethnic change in a neighbourhood is closely related to that in adjacent neighbourhoods. When we zoom into the local level, a visualisation of recent measures of local concordance allows us to document a high degree of spatial heterogeneity in how the overall change is distributed over space. Finally, to further explore the nature and characteristics of neighbourhoods that experience the largest amount of change, we develop a spatial, multilevel model. Our results show that the largest cities, as well as those at the boundaries with Belgium and Germany, with the most diverse neighbourhoods, have large clusters of stable neighbourhood diversity over time, while concentrations of high dynamic areas are nearby these largest cities. The analysis shows that neighbourhood diversity spatially ‘spills over’, gradually expanding outside traditionally diverse areas.

scholarly journals Statistical and Perceived Diversity and Their Impacts on Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruud Koopmans ◽  
Merlin Schaeffer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Neighborhood Social Cohesion ◽  
Diversity Effects

The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We not only consider perceptions of the amount, but also of the qualitative nature of diversity. By asking about various qualitative aspects of diversity, we test the cognitive salience of three explanations that have been proposed in the literature for negative diversity effects: out-group biases, asymmetric preferences and coordination problems. We show that all three mechanisms matter. Perceptions both mediate statistical diversity effects, and have important explanatory power of their own. Moreover, we are able to address the question to what extend the relationship of perceived diversity and neighborhood social cohesion varies across policy contexts. Based on assumptions in the literature about positive impacts of inclusive and culturally pluralist immigrant integration policy approaches, we hypothesize that ethno-cultural diversity is less negatively related to neighborhood social cohesion in more inclusive policy contexts. Our results provide partial support for this hypothesis as perceived diversity has a significantly stronger negative impact on neighborhood cohesion in Germany.

Beyond the middle classes: Neighbourhood choice and satisfaction in the hyper-diverse contexts1

Divercities ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Anouk K. Tersteeg ◽  
Ympkje Albeda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Diversity ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods ◽  
Minority Ethnic

This chapter studies neighbourhood choice and satisfaction, more specifically what attracts people to diverse and deprived urban areas, and how perceptions of local diversity play a role in this. The importance of diversity for neighbourhood choice and satisfaction has hardly been studied among non-middle-class residents. The chapter then presents a qualitative study of neighbourhood choice and satisfaction among residents of different social classes in highly diverse and disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Antwerp (Belgium) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands). The primary motive for choosing to live in a diverse neighbourhood is the availability of affordable housing. For poor residents and migrants, the presence of family and friends in the neighbourhood is also an important motive. Only for some interviewees, mostly of minority ethnic backgrounds, neighbourhood ethnic diversity is an important factor for their neighbourhood choice, mainly because they prefer to live in neighbourhoods that are not dominated by a majority group.

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