Bertil Malmberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 738969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bertil Malmberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bertil |
| FAMILY NAME | Malmberg |
| SIGNATURE | MALMBERG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7345-0932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 562 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Spatial Processes of Habitus Formation Among Young Adults in Suburban Stockholm
This article examines the meaning of local contexts in the formation of young adults’ life trajectories and horizons of opportunities in southern Stockholm. Our investigation draws on latent class analysis (LCA) of people aged 25–59 years, which reveals typical latent life courses among the individuals. The local setting mapped with typical life courses is interpreted as an indication of habitus, further examined in interviews with young adults 1…
Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age
There are few reasons to believe that social segregation is restricted to the working age population. Still, attempts to analyse social segregation among old age individuals have been lacking. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to explore the extent to which old age individuals who follow different sociodemographic trajectories are geographically segregated. We analyse residential segregation among older age adults, based on an identificati…
Contextual poverty and obtained educational level and income in Sweden and the Netherlands: A multi-scale and longitudinal study
Studies of neighbourhood effects typically measure the neighbourhood context at one specific spatial scale. It is increasingly acknowledged, however, that the mechanisms through which the residential context affects individual outcomes may operate at different spatial scales, ranging from the very immediate environment to the metropolitan region. We take a multi-scale approach to investigate the extent to which concentrated poverty in adolescence…
Exploring Life-Course Trajectories in Local Spatial Contexts Across Sweden
This article explores typical life-course trajectories based on annual observations of educational participation, employment, and establishing a family from age sixteen to age thirty. Using latent class analysis, we identify seven different trajectory classes that capture the different life courses experienced by individuals born in 1986. Examples of trajectory classes are (1) an early partner and childbearing trajectory; (2) a trajectory that mi…
Tenure type mixing and segregation
We examine the ‘overlap’ or to which degree tenure form patterns are similar to socio-economic segregation patterns. The issue has been discussed concerning mixing policies; does mixing of tenure hinder socio-economic segregation? If mixing tenure is to be an effective policy against segregation, the overlap has to be understood. Using Swedish register data, we cross tenure-type landscapes with patterns of high/mixed/low-income and with European/…
School choice and educational attitudes: Spatially uneven neoliberalization in Sweden
Statistical details for the paper School choice and educational attitudes: Spatially uneven neoliberalization in Sweden
Migration and Neighborhood Change in Sweden: The Interaction of Ethnic Choice and Income Constraints
The majority of segregation studies focus on ethnic concentration but there is growing research that also documents high and increasing status segregation. While empirical studies have documented the existence of both ethnic concentration and status segregation, there is only limited research on the two complexly related distributions. In this article, we examine the conjoint relationship of ethnic and economic segregation in bespoke neighborhood…
How Well Do Schools Mix Students from Different Neighborhoods? School Segregation and Residential Segregation in Swedish Municipalities
In this article, we propose a new approach for assessing the extent to which schools are successful in mixing students from different backgrounds. It is based on a comparison of variation in the composition of the student population in small‐scale residential neighborhoods with variation in the composition of the student population at local schools. From this we compute a measure that corresponds to the number of small scale neighborhoods that ne…
The re-emergence of educational inequality during a period of reforms: A study of Swedish school leavers 1991–2012
Against the background of a liberalization of Swedish compulsory education, this paper analyses post-1991 shifts in the way compulsory education performance in Sweden has been shaped by parental background, residential context and school context. We can document increasing school and residential segregation of foreign background students and, after 2008, increasing segregation by income, employment status and social allowance reception. Over time…
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm
The purpose of this study is to compare socioeconomic segregation patterns and levels in Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Stockholm with uniform measurements. Previous research has been hampered by conceptual and methodological shortcomings. We use harmonized datasets containing geocoded indicators based on a nearest-neighbors approach. Our analyses offer an unprecedented comparison of patterns and levels of socio-spatial inequalities i…
A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for Covid-19 deaths in Sweden
As global deaths from COVID-19 continue to rise, the world’s governments, institutions, and agencies are still working toward an understanding of who is most at risk of death. In this study, data on all recorded COVID-19 deaths in Sweden up to May 7, 2020 are linked to high-quality and accurate individual-level background data from administrative registers of the total population. By means of individual-level survival analysis we demonstrate that…
Neighbourhood context and young adult mobility: A life course approach
This paper finds convincing evidence of upward progress out of poor Swedish neighbourhoods for individuals with a Swedish background, individuals with a European background, and those with a non‐European background. We use the 1986 cohort of the Swedish population and follow them from age 15 when they are living at home to age 30. We find that by age 30, they live in a neighbourhood that in terms of the poverty level is relatively distant from th…
Tenure type landscapes and housing market change: A geographical perspective on neo-liberalization in Sweden
Discussions of tenure mix have received renewed interest as many have suggested that neo-liberalization has made way for gentrification of neighbourhoods and increasing segregation. Yet, few scholars have studied country-wide changes in tenure mix, due to the lack of data and appropriate methods. In this article, we propose to use tenure type landscapes to analyse changes in housing policy. We do so while acknowledging the evolution of housing po…
Neighbourhood Concentration and Representation of Non-European Migrants: New Results from Norway
In a previous study, Andersson et al. (A comparative study of segregation patterns in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden: neighbourhood concentration and representation of non-European migrants. Eur J Popul 34:1-25, 2018) compared the patterns of residential segregation between non-European immigrants and the rest of the population in four European countries, using the k -nearest neighbours approach to compute comparable measures of seg…
Adolescent neighbourhood context and transition to parenthood: A longitudinal study
This paper investigates effects of neighbourhood context on first birth timing in Sweden. Analyses are on the basis of Swedish population registers and innovative methods for the construction of individualised neighbourhoods of varying sizes and a traditional measure using defined areas. The 1980 Swedish birth cohort is followed from age 13 to 36, with neighbourhood characteristics observed at age 15 to define the contexts in which the young adul…
Patterns of changing residential preferences during late adulthood
Earlier research on residential mobility has demonstrated a tendency for the young old of the 55+ population to prefer peripheral locations, whereas older age groups choose central locations. Here, we present survey results indicating that such late-adulthood differences in preferences are supported by age-related shifts corresponding to differences in housing preferences expressed by individuals in peripheral as well as central locations in Swed…
Ett halvt århundrade svensk äldreomsorg– var står stat och familj?
Den svenska offentliga äldreomsorgen växte starkt från 1950-talet, och nådde sin högsta nivå på 1980-talet, för att därefter minska under 2000-talet. Med hjälp av riksrepresentativa befolkningsundersökningar från 1954 och fram till 2009 studerar vi mönster i äldres hjälpbehov och insatser från familj och offentlig omsorg. Ansvarsförhållandet mellan stat och familj har skiftat över tid, men omsorg från anhöriga och det offentliga överlappar allt m…
A Comparative Study of Segregation Patterns in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden: Neighbourhood Concentration and Representation of Non-European Migrants
In this paper, we use geo-coded, individual-level register data on four European countries to compute comparative measures of segregation that are independent of existing geographical sub-divisions. The focus is on non-European migrants, for whom aggregates of egocentric neighbourhoods (with different population counts) are used to assess small-scale, medium-scale, and large-scale segregation patterns. At the smallest scale level, corresponding t…
Residential Segregation of European and Non-European Migrants in Sweden: 1990–2012
In this paper, we analyse how a migrant population that is both expanding and changing in composition has affected the composition of Swedish neighbourhoods at different scales. The analysis is based on Swedish geocoded individual-level register data for the years 1990, 1997, 2005, and 2012. This allows us to compute and analyse the demographic composition of neighbourhoods that range in size from encompassing the nearest 100 individuals to the n…
Segregation and the effects of adolescent residential context on poverty risks and early income career: A study of the Swedish 1980 cohort
Will the consequences of residential segregation, that is, spatial concentration of marginalised populations on the one hand, and spatial concentration of affluent populations on the other hand, generate a situation where individual life trajectories are influenced by where individuals grow up? Our aim is to analyse how poverty risks and early income career at adult age are influenced by different neighbourhood contexts in early youth. We use Swe…
What can we learn about changing ethnic diversity from the distributions of mixed-race individuals
It is hypothesized that self-defined mixed-race persons live in residentially mixed areas in the largest metropolitan areas in California. The hypothesis is tested by examining the distribution of mixed-race persons among ethnically and racially diverse and nondiverse neighborhoods in the San Francisco and Los Angeles Metropolitan Areas. The research confirmed that mixed-race individuals are more likely to live in areas with ethnic diversity and …
Measuring the Scale of Segregation Using k ‐Nearest Neighbor Aggregates
Nearly all segregation measures use some form of administrative unit (usually tracts in the U nited S tates) as the base for the calculation of segregation indices, and most of the commonly used measures are aspatial. The spatial measures that have been proposed are often not easily computed, although there have been significant advances in the past decade. We provide a measure that is individually based (either persons or very small administrati…
Multi-scalar residential context and recovery from illness: An analysis using Swedish register data
Ethnic Segregation and Xenophobic Party Preference: Exploring the Influence of the Presence of Visible Minorities on Local Electoral Support for the Sweden Democrats
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the influence of the neighborhood-level presence of visible minorities on xenophobic party support. Drawing on previous research on support for xenophobic political parties in Europe, we explore variations in electoral preferences for the Sweden Democrats. We examine relationships between the presence of visible minorities at the neighborhood level, controlling for the level of unemployment and ed…
Contextual effects on educational attainment in individualised, scalable neighbourhoods: Differences across gender and social class
This paper analyses whether a multi-scale representation of geographical context based on statistical aggregates computed for individualised neighbourhoods can lead to improved estimates of neighbourhood effect. Our study group consists of individuals born in 1980 that have lived in Sweden since 1995 and we analyse the effect of neighbourhood context at age 15 on educational outcome at age 30 controlling for parental background. A new piece of so…
On waiting, work-time and imagined futures: Theorising temporal precariousness among Chinese chefs in Sweden’s restaurant industry
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm
The purpose of this study is to compare socioeconomic segregation patterns and levels in Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Stockholm with uniform measurements. Previous research has been hampered by conceptual and methodological shortcomings. We use harmonized datasets containing geocoded indicators based on a nearest-neighbors approach. Our analyses offer an unprecedented comparison of patterns and levels of socio-spatial inequalities i…
A Multiscalar Analysis of Neighborhood Composition in Los Angeles, 2000–2010: A Location-Based Approach to Segregation and Diversity
There continues to be cross-disciplinary interest in the patterns, extent, and changing contexts of segregation and spatial inequality more generally. The changes are clearly context dependent but at the same time there are broad generalizations that arise from the processes of residential sorting and selection. A major question in U.S. segregation research is how the growth of Asian and Hispanic populations is influencing patterns of segregation…
Segregation and Urban Unrest in Sweden
In 2009, Sweden experienced a wave of urban unrest concentrated in areas with large foreign-born populations. This episode was seen by many as reflecting a trend towards increased ethnically based residential segregation, in line with scholarly literatures that correlate inequality and rising segregation with increases in unrest or rebellion. In this paper, we analyze the empirical connection between ethnic residential segregation and episodes of…
Contextual effects on educational attainment in individualised, scalable neighbourhoods: Differences across gender and social class
This paper analyses whether a multi-scale representation of geographical context based on statistical aggregates computed for individualised neighbourhoods can lead to improved estimates of neighbourhood effect. Our study group consists of individuals born in 1980 that have lived in Sweden since 1995 and we analyse the effect of neighbourhood context at age 15 on educational outcome at age 30 controlling for parental background. A new piece of so…
Travel-to-school distances in Sweden 2000–2006: Changing school geography with equality implications
Age structure effects and growth in the OECD, 1950-1990
A Comparative Study of Segregation Patterns in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden: Neighbourhood Concentration and Representation of Non-European Migrants
In this paper, we use geo-coded, individual-level register data on four European countries to compute comparative measures of segregation that are independent of existing geographical sub-divisions. The focus is on non-European migrants, for whom aggregates of egocentric neighbourhoods (with different population counts) are used to assess small-scale, medium-scale, and large-scale segregation patterns. At the smallest scale level, corresponding t…
Residential Segregation of European and Non-European Migrants in Sweden: 1990–2012
In this paper, we analyse how a migrant population that is both expanding and changing in composition has affected the composition of Swedish neighbourhoods at different scales. The analysis is based on Swedish geocoded individual-level register data for the years 1990, 1997, 2005, and 2012. This allows us to compute and analyse the demographic composition of neighbourhoods that range in size from encompassing the nearest 100 individuals to the n…
The urban hierarchy and domestic migration: The interaction of internal migration, disposable income and the cost of living, Sweden 1993-2002
This article examines household gains and losses from migration within the Swedish urban hierarchy. The central questions focus on whether increases in disposable income outweigh the associated changes in housing costs, especially with movements up (and down) the urban hierarchy, to (and from) larger and more expensive population-growth regions. The questions are addressed using Swedish Census data for 3.5 million individuals and two fixed-effect…
School Choice and Increasing Performance Difference: A Counterfactual Approach
In recent years, structural changes to the school system, including the introduction of independent schools, have increased school choice alternatives in Sweden. Consequently, a large share of today’s students attend a school other than the one closest to home. Since the compulsory school system is designed to be free of charge and to offer the same standard of education everywhere, increasing school choice– hypothetically—should not increase the…
Agglomeration and Firm Performance: Economies of Scale, Localisation, and Urbanisation among Swedish Export Firms
In the 1990s, there has been an increase in interest in the spatial agglomeration of similar and related firms and industries. The recent literature is, however, marked by a lack of balance between theoretical development and empirical validation of the importance of agglomeration economies. Our aim in this paper is to redress the balance by assessing empirically the impact of various types of agglomeration economies on export performance. Our st…
Composite Geographical Context and School Choice Attitudes in Sweden: A Study Based on Individually Defined, Scalable Neighborhoods
This article contributes both to the expanding literature on the effect of school choice and to the literature focusing on how to measure and conceptualize neighborhood effects. It uses a novel approach to the measurement of geographical context to analyze neighborhood influences on school choice attitudes among Swedish parents. Data on attitudes come from a survey of 3,749 families with children in upper primary school. Geographical context is m…
Ethnic Segregation and Xenophobic Party Preference: Exploring the Influence of the Presence of Visible Minorities on Local Electoral Support for the Sweden Democrats
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the influence of the neighborhood-level presence of visible minorities on xenophobic party support. Drawing on previous research on support for xenophobic political parties in Europe, we explore variations in electoral preferences for the Sweden Democrats. We examine relationships between the presence of visible minorities at the neighborhood level, controlling for the level of unemployment and ed…
Ethnic Segregation and Performance Inequality in the Swedish School System: A Regional Perspective
Sweden is today an immigrant country with more than 14% foreign born. An increasing share of the immigrants comes from non-European countries. This implies that Sweden has been transformed from an ethnically homogenous country into a country with a large visible minority. In this paper we survey the effect of this change on school segregation. Building on Schelling's model for residential segregation, we argue that establishment of a visible mino…
Do open‐ended survey questions on migration motives create coder variability problems
Contemporary research on migration has benefited from adopting a variety of methodological approaches and different sources of information to provide answers to the ever‐recurring question of why people migrate. Yet, when it comes to central methods used for researching migration motives, progress appears to have been slow. This paper focuses on surveys to research migration motives using self‐administered postal questionnaires. It addresses a ke…
Balancing family and state care: Neither, either or both? The case of Sweden
Old-age care has frequently been conceptualised as being either family-based or publicly-provided. This article analyses the overlap in provision from the two sources and their relationship in the Swedish welfare state. Many older people and their carers rely on both sources of help rather than on just one, and prefer to do so. The empirical evidence on patterns of care in Sweden supports a joint family-state conceptualisation of care. Its realis…
Gender and Health: A Study of Older Unlike-Sex Twins
Important gender differences and similarities in health were found using an unlike-sex twin design that reduced variability due to background characteristics. This design also minimized problems caused by gender differences in survival. Research on gender and health in older persons requires more detailed approaches to address the complexity of this topic
Changes in Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Disablement Processes: Role of Demographic Characteristics, Cognitive Function, Health, and Social Support
Our findings are consistent with conceptual notions implicating disability-related factors as key contributors to late-life change and suggest that contextual and psychosocial factors play a pivotal role for how well people adapt to late-life challenges
Tenure type landscapes and housing market change: A geographical perspective on neo-liberalization in Sweden
Discussions of tenure mix have received renewed interest as many have suggested that neo-liberalization has made way for gentrification of neighbourhoods and increasing segregation. Yet, few scholars have studied country-wide changes in tenure mix, due to the lack of data and appropriate methods. In this article, we propose to use tenure type landscapes to analyse changes in housing policy. We do so while acknowledging the evolution of housing po…
Segregation and the effects of adolescent residential context on poverty risks and early income career: A study of the Swedish 1980 cohort
Will the consequences of residential segregation, that is, spatial concentration of marginalised populations on the one hand, and spatial concentration of affluent populations on the other hand, generate a situation where individual life trajectories are influenced by where individuals grow up? Our aim is to analyse how poverty risks and early income career at adult age are influenced by different neighbourhood contexts in early youth. We use Swe…
Demography and housing demand—what can we learn from residential construction data
The Role of Health Congruence in Functional Status and Depression
Few studies have attempted to examine the meaning of health congruence, particularly in the oldest old. Participants were drawn from a longitudinal study of the oldest old (N = 151; M = 90 years). Dichotomized objective health was cross classified with dichotomized subjective health, producing four health congruence groups: good health realists, poor health realists, optimists, and pessimists. Both good health realists and pessimists had good obj…
Low Fertility and the Housing Market: Evidence from Swedish Regional Data
Tenure type mixing and segregation
We examine the ‘overlap’ or to which degree tenure form patterns are similar to socio-economic segregation patterns. The issue has been discussed concerning mixing policies; does mixing of tenure hinder socio-economic segregation? If mixing tenure is to be an effective policy against segregation, the overlap has to be understood. Using Swedish register data, we cross tenure-type landscapes with patterns of high/mixed/low-income and with European/…
Études sur la phonétique de l'espagnol parlé en Argentine
A propos d'un fait de phonétique historique castillane
Structural Linguistics and Human Communication: An Introduction into the Mechanism of Language and the Methodology of Linguistics
Analyse prosodique et analyse grammaticale
Selected Writings, I: Phonological Studies
Estudios de fonetica hispanica
Linguistic theory and phonetic methods
(1969). Linguistic theory and phonetic methods. English Studies: Vol. 50, No. 1-6, pp. 417-435
Readings in Modern Linguistics: An Anthology
Introduction to Phonetics
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. The physics of sound 3. The speech apparatus 4. The production of sound in the vocal tract 5. The description and classification of speech sounds 6. The segmental sounds 7. Combinations of sounds 8. Prosodic features 9. Hearing and perception of speech 10. The functioning of sounds in language 11. Syntagmatic structures and segmentation Appendices Further reading List of references Subject index
Langue - Forme - Valeur: Réflexions Sur Trois Concepts Saussuriens
Signes et symboles: Les bases du langage humain
A Note on Idealist Models in Social Science
In this paper a central assumption of the British socio-spatial debate is challenged. Contrary to the beliefs of Duncan, Saunders, Urry and others there are no examples of materialist aspatial soci
Histoire de la linguistique: De Sumer à Saussure
Age structure effects on economic growth — Swedish evidence
This paper argues that age structure is an important factor behind variations in the rate of economic growth. Theoretically, the argument is based on Romer's model of endogenous technical change, human capital theory and the life-cycle theory of savings. Taken together, these theories imply that growth rates are dependent on age structure. Empirically, the existence of age structure effects is demonstrated through an analysis of Swedish growth da…
Changes in Functional Competency in the Oldest Old: A Longitudinal Study
Changes in everyday functioning and cognitive abilities are studied longitudinally in a representative sample of the oldest old. Respondents were selected by using census records from all people aged 84, 86, 88, and 90 years old living in an area of South Central Sweden, and then were assessed at 2-year intervals. The findings show high base rates for disabilities and high incidence of cognitive and functional deficits among survivors. Mortality …
Problems of time-space co-ordination: A key to the understanding of multiplant firms
Understanding Attraction: Cooperation and Human Intentionality as Determinants of Spatial Interaction and Corporate Location
In this paper it is argued that identification and analysis of spatial patterns have an important role to play in the development of materialist social theory. Spatial forms reveal material conditions that govern social processes and, therefore, provide keys to the understanding of how societies work. Two examples are provided. First, it is argued that gravity patterns in spatial interaction are an outcome of human intentionality but that they al…
Age structure effects and growth in the OECD, 1950-1990
The Hidden Pulse of History: Age Transition and Economic Change in Sweden, 1820-2000
generously shared with us his population data, and fil. kand. Christian Skarman, who has provided valuable help in
Agglomeration and Firm Performance: Economies of Scale, Localisation, and Urbanisation among Swedish Export Firms
In the 1990s, there has been an increase in interest in the spatial agglomeration of similar and related firms and industries. The recent literature is, however, marked by a lack of balance between theoretical development and empirical validation of the importance of agglomeration economies. Our aim in this paper is to redress the balance by assessing empirically the impact of various types of agglomeration economies on export performance. Our st…
Gender and Health: A Study of Older Unlike-Sex Twins
Important gender differences and similarities in health were found using an unlike-sex twin design that reduced variability due to background characteristics. This design also minimized problems caused by gender differences in survival. Research on gender and health in older persons requires more detailed approaches to address the complexity of this topic
The Role of Health Congruence in Functional Status and Depression
Few studies have attempted to examine the meaning of health congruence, particularly in the oldest old. Participants were drawn from a longitudinal study of the oldest old (N = 151; M = 90 years). Dichotomized objective health was cross classified with dichotomized subjective health, producing four health congruence groups: good health realists, poor health realists, optimists, and pessimists. Both good health realists and pessimists had good obj…
Generations at War or Sustainable Social Policy in Ageing Societies
Demography and housing demand—what can we learn from residential construction data
Balancing family and state care: Neither, either or both? The case of Sweden
Old-age care has frequently been conceptualised as being either family-based or publicly-provided. This article analyses the overlap in provision from the two sources and their relationship in the Swedish welfare state. Many older people and their carers rely on both sources of help rather than on just one, and prefer to do so. The empirical evidence on patterns of care in Sweden supports a joint family-state conceptualisation of care. Its realis…
Sociology (39 works) · Economics (36 works) · Geography (30 works) · Demography (28 works) · Demographic economics (27 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (26 works) · Population (24 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Demography (20 works) · Economic growth (18 works)