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The Poverty Concentration Implications of Housing Subsidies: A Cellular Automata Thought Experiment
Jewell, Kevin - EconWPA - 2005
Looking at data from HUD’s low income housing tax credit database from 1987 to 2001, we examine how the US tax credit program has concentrated poverty in neighborhoods by offering advantages to developing low income housing projects in low income census tracts. We then use a simple Cellular...
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The Role of Endogenous Skill Choice in an Aging Economy
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408449
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Moving to Jobs?
Maré, Dave; Timmins, Jason - EconWPA - 2003
and migration flows to gauge the strength of the relationship and the stability of the relationship over the business … strongly related to that region's fortunes. We also find that migration flows to the metropolitan regions of Auckland …
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Impact of competition policy reforms on rural and regional Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...
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Poles and Italians then, Mexicans Now? Immigrant-to-Native Wage Ratios, 1910 and 1940
Perlmann, Joel - EconWPA - 2002
A good deal of recent discussion among social scientists concerned with immigration is about the disadvantages faced by immigrants who enter the U. S. labor force with much-lower levels of skills than those possessed by the typical native white worker. Among contemporary immigrant groups, by far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412540
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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population
Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004
The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya. It is interestingly found that the rank in all kabupaten respect to the population does not have fat tail properties, while in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125726
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Supply Side Structural Change
Cordoba, Juan C. - EconWPA - 2002
accumulates capital, labor flows from the backward sector to the advanced one. This migration prevents the usual diminishing …
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Modi di pensare e vedere la città mediterranea
Giuseppe, Pace - EconWPA - 2003
This essay attempt to summarise what is known about the mediterranean cities and their relationship to the so-called Global Cities, principally based on immaterial fluxes, which offer a growing centrality to cities networks and communication systems. A new dualism has sprung, global/local,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119032
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“Dynamic Effects of Migrant Remittances on Growth: An Econometric Model with an Application to Mediterranean Countries”. Discussion Paper, No. 74, KEPE, Athens, 2002.
GLYTSOS, NICHOLAS - EconWPA - 2005
This paper builds a Keynesian type econometric model with a dynamic perspective and a sound theoretical basis, for investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with...
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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration
Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003
-educated workers. High gross migration rates are consistent with the hypothesis that education contributes to skill-specialization and … of public goods and services, including higher education. Despite theoretical insights from traditional trade theory that … suggest that ``trade and migration are substitutes,'' labor markets in both the US and Canada exhibit substantial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076579