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Spatial segregation, employment and poverty in Montevideo

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  • Retamoso, Alejandro
  • Kaztman, Rubén

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This article looks at two processes that are affecting the characteristics of poverty in the city of Montevideo: the weakening of lower-skilled workers' attachments to the labour market and the growing concentration of such workers in neighbourhoods with a high density of poverty. While far from conclusive, the results suggest the advisability of further research into the relationship between changes in the social morphology of cities and the segmentation of their labour markets. If further research confirms both a tendency towards growing polarization in the spatial distribution of social classes in cities and the presence of feedback mechanisms reinforcing the social isolation of residents in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, it will be safe to say that these processes, if not effectively countered, will irreversibly widen the already excessive inequalities that affect large Latin American cities.

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  • Retamoso, Alejandro & Kaztman, Rubén, 2005. "Spatial segregation, employment and poverty in Montevideo," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), April.
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    1. Zaffaroni, Cecilia, 1999. "Los recursos de las familias urbanas de bajos ingresos para enfrentar situaciones críticas," Oficina de la CEPAL en Montevideo (Estudios e Investigaciones) 28662, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    2. Saraví, Gonzalo A., 2004. "Segregación urbana y espacio público: los jóvenes en enclaves de pobreza estructural," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), August.
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    2. Mara Nogueira, 2020. "Preserving the (right kind of) city: The urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(10), pages 2163-2180, August.

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