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New paper by Selim Banabak published

Cover of journal Population, space and place 2/2026

Cover of journal Population, space and place 2/2026

The cover shows the journal title and below there is an image of a world map consisting of people standing on a white area in a way that their shapes form the continents.

On 12 February 2026, a new paper entitled "Retreat of the Rich? The Impact of High-Income Household Mobility on Income Segregation" was published in the journal Population, Space and Place, authored by Tatjana Neuhuber, Antonia E. Schneider (TU Vienna, IFIP), Selim Banabak (TU Vienna, SRF) and Justin Kadi (University of Cambridge). The paper investigates how residential mobility among high-income households shapes income segregation. Drawing on a unique data set covering all household relocations in Vienna between 2011 and 2018, we examine whether the movements of the top income quintile (Q5) reflect a broader “retreat of the rich” to affluent clusters and, if so, how these mobility patterns influence both citywide and localised segregation.

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