Resumen de Neighbourhood Effects as Indirect Effects: Evidence from a Dutch Case Study onthe Significance of Neighbourhoodfor Employment Trajectories

Fenne M. Pinkster

• One of the key challenges in the study of neighbourhood effects on work is to understandthe pathways through which disadvantaged neighbourhoods impact the employmentopportunities of residents. Endogenous explanations for neighbourhood effects focus onsocial life in these neighbourhoods, identifying mechanisms of social isolation, deviantwork ethics and neighbourhood disorder. This article studies these mechanisms in alow-income neighbourhood in the Netherlands. The case study shows that unfavourablesocioeconomic outcomes can be indirect and unintended consequences of actions andchoices in everyday life that are not directly concerned with work. Nevertheless, theseindividual actions and choices reflect local social practices that are influenced by themarginalized context in which residents lead their lives