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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different US cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of …

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Ortalo-Magné, François; Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

People choose where to live and how much to invest in housing. Traditionally, the first decision has been the domain of spatial economics, while the second has been analyzed in finance. Spatial asset pricing is an attempt to combine equilibrium concepts from both disciplines. In the finance...

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Property Tax and Urban Sprawl. Theory and Implications for U.S. Cities

Song, Yan; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between property tax and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We develop a theoretical model that includes households (who are also landlords) and land developers in a regional land market. We then test the model empirically based on a national...

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New Economic Geography: an appraisal on the occasion of Paul Krugman's 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Paul Krugman has clarified the microeconomic underpinnings of both spatial economic agglomerations and regional imbalances at national and international levels. He has achieved this with a series of remarkably original papers and books that succeed in combining imperfect competition, increasing...

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How Urbanization Affect Employment and Social Interactions

Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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The Geography of Development within Countries

Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J Vernon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an economy...

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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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