@unpublished{theses_frw3773,
           title = {Who are Amsterdam?s gentrifiers?},
          author = {Tobias Meppelink},
            year = {2021},
             url = {https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3773/},
        abstract = {Currently, the social geography of urban landscapes is changing. One process driving these
changes is gentrification, which recently has gained increasing academic, public and media
attention. For one, concerns are voiced about the city of Amsterdam becoming an enclave for the
rich. This thesis aims to determine how household-level resources and restrictions influence the
likelihood of moving into a gentrifying Amsterdam neighbourhood. It elaborates on existing
literature on residential mobility and gentrification, through which the importance of five
characteristics comes forward, namely income, education, age, ethnic origin and household type.
Using data from the Dutch national statistics office (CBS) and the Bureau of Research, Information
and Statistics (OIS) Amsterdam, the city?s gentrifying neighbourhoods are determined, after
which the characteristics of households moving into Amsterdam?s neighbourhood are analysed
with a multinomial logistic regression, distinguishing between the in-movers of gentrifying
neighbourhoods, those of lower-income nongentrifying neighbourhoods, and the in-movers of
higher-income neighbourhoods that are not eligible to gentrify. The results show that the
aforementioned five household characteristics are significantly associated with moving into a
gentrifying neighbourhood, as opposed to a non-gentrifying one. The findings cohere with the
presupposed notion that gentrifiers are more likely to be affluent, high educated, young, of native
origin, and childless as opposed to in-movers of lower-income neighbourhoods that are not
gentrifying. Additionally, this study finds that the place of residence prior to moving also affects
a household?s odds of moving into a gentrifying neighbourhood.}
}