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The labour market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank

Cali, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The efficient mobility of goods and labour is one of the most important features of a functioning economy. Using data …-induced restrictions to mobility. These restrictions operated through a system of checkpoints, roadblocks and other barriers installed by … barriers to mobility have had a significant negative effect on employment, wages and days worked per month. Wages are most …

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EU, Russia and the reshaping of the post-Soviet economic space: an international trade analysis.

Chiaruttini, Maria Stella - European Regional Science Association - 2014

trade links between EU, Russia and the other transition economies, offering a background for the debate on the reshaping of …

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

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Ranking German regions using interregional migration - What does internal migration tells us about regional well-being?

Wirth, Benjamin - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...

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Regional employment and population growth: Granger causality tests using panel data

Tervo, Hannu - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The effect of economic fluctuations, region type and human capital. Traditionally, people are believed to follow jobs, but a contradictory view has also gained popularity. In this study, two methods are used to analyse regional growth in Finland between 1990 and 2010. The results from the...

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Modelling Migration and Regional Labour Markets: An Application of the New Economic Geography Model RHOMOLO

d'Artis Kancs; Brandsma, Andries; Persyn, Damiaan - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The present paper describes the modelling of regional labour markets in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by firms' labour demand, a wage-curve determining unemployment, and inter-regional labour migration....

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The Russian Urban System in Transition: The View of New Economic Geography

Kauffmann, Albrecht - European Regional Science Association - 2013

After the price liberalization in 1991, the Russian economy was faced with a jump of costs of transportation in real terms. New Economic Geography (NEG) gives answers to questions that are related to changes in transport costs. However, the outcomes of NEG models are very sensitive with respect...

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A gravity equation for commuting - with an application to estimating regional and language border effects in Belgium.

Persyn, Damiaan; Torfs, Wouter - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper derives a gravity equation for commuter flows from a simple spatial labor market model based on the classic model developed by Anderson and Van Wincoop in the context of international trade. The approach shows the importance of taking into account the effect of the economic structure...

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How Immigration Reduced Social Capital in the US: 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...

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