Die politische Partizipation von Frauen in ländlichen Regionen ist in vielen europäischen Ländern deutlich niedriger als jene von Männern. Die Gründe für diese Unterrepräsentanz werden durch sozioökonomische und institutionelle Faktoren sowie durch die politische Kultur eines Landes...

Ziel des LEADER-Ansatzes ist es, die Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen in der Europäischen Union durch Einbeziehung der regionalen Ressourcen und der Bevölkerung zu stärken und die Lebensqualität zu erhöhen. Als Pilotaktion Anfang der 1990er Jahre konzipiert, avancierte LEADER zu einem...

The reason for choosing this theme is that the employers show a lack of interest in the workforce that has benefited from the educational process, a lack of interest which begun to intensify lately, educational process meaning formal education, namely that obtained in universities. The...

Our data show that land prices were more volatile than house prices during the recent boom/bust cycle. In areas where land was inexpensive in 2000, the land share of property value jumped during the boom, and this rise in the land share was a useful predictor of the subsequent crash in house...

We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...

This paper focuses on residential sorting by social and ethnic status in large French urban areas. Our objective is to assess the relative importance of two major determinants of segregation stressed by the economic literature (Bartolome and Ross, 2003 ; Brueckner et al., 1999) : (i) “Alonso...

This paper surveys the literature on regional inequality in contemporary China. It reviews the trend of convergence or divergence of real GDP or income across different regions in China since 1952, and examines the degree of regional inequality using different measurements. It then discusses...

Though Congress and Presidents Bush and Obama put forth several different mortgage modification programs, the rate of foreclosures has continued to rise over the past several years. According to CoreLogic, about one-in-four (23%) mortgages were underwater in the second quarter of 2010, and...

The recent literature on tenure choice has been focusing increasingly on the information aspects of the tenure choice dec ision. However, despite the obvious information channel between social networks and tenure choice, the relationship has drawn little attention in academic research. Since the...

Social attitudes (beliefs) are increasingly being recognized as factors that are important in determination of the outcomes that interests economists. In the United States as Glaeser and Ward (2006) have shown, the differences in beliefs on social issues such as acceptability of legal abortion...