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Understanding Student Impacts on Urban Areas: Research and Insights

Investigating the effects of students on urban areas, this research delves into their roles as residents and workers, their impact on city competitiveness, and the dynamics of student neighborhoods. It explores patterns of employment, segregation, and the overall influence on urban labor markets.

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Understanding Student Impacts on Urban Areas: Research and Insights

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  1. The impacts of students on Urban Areas Mark Livingston, Moira Munro, Ivan Turok Glasgow University

  2. Students in Cities: Context • Transient: • Distinctive • Numerically significant • Census, 2001: Over 3% of pop. • Policy towards continuing growth • Financial support for students reduced

  3. Growth within cities

  4. Research questions • Students as residents: • Lively, buzzy quarters • Degraded, deteriorated neighbourhoods • Students as workers: • Enhancing city competitiveness, productivity • Displacing local jobs.

  5. Studentification:Cardiff.

  6. Research questions • Students as residents: • Lively, buzzy quarters • Degraded, deteriorated neighbourhoods • Students as workers: • Enhancing city competitiveness, productivity • Displacing local jobs.

  7. Student cities?

  8. 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:

  9. Segregation:

  10. More students, greater segregation

  11. Atrium

  12. Rapid Residential Turnover Unstable, lack of cohesion etc.

  13. 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.

  14. Impacts on urban labour markets

  15. Student employment by PUA employment rate

  16. Displacement effects?

  17. 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?

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