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The urban wage growth premium: evidence from British cities.

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The urban economics literature provides ample evidence of an urban wage premium: wages are higher in larger urban areas. This paper addresses three central issues of the urban wage premium about which the field has not yet reached a consensus. First, the extent to which sorting of high ability...

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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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AGGLOMERATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE BRAZILIAN INDUSTRIAL WAGES OVER THE LAST DECADE

Dalberto, Cassiano; Staduto, Jefferson - European Regional Science Association - 2013

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*Trade Shocks** and Local Employment Multipliers: Evidence from France

Malgouyres, Clement - European Regional Science Association - 2013

In this paper, I develop a simple model of spatial equilibrium to investigate theoretically what determines the sign and magnitude of ``local multipliers' (defined as elasticity of employment in the non-tradable sector with respect to increase in employment in the tradable sector). I estimate...

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Not always for richer or poorer: The effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Battu, Harminder; Brown, Heather; Costa-Gomes, Miguel - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...

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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Losers of Modernization: Regional Decline, Selective Migration and the Extreme Right

Wendland, Nicolai; Vermeulen, Wouter - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Mainstream sociological theory relates right-wing extremism to a situation in which losers of modernization emerge from a rapidly changing social and demographic environment as well as from structural economic change (the reinforcement of core-periphery patterns and the decline of manufacturing...

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An Assessment for ?Quality of Life? through ?Urban Poverty? Perspective

Koramaz, Elif Kısar - European Regional Science Association - 2013

forms those the vulnerable social groups suffer in poor neighbourhoods. With a conceptualization of urban poverty as the …, indicators of QoL are analyzed and compared among different neighbourhoods and socio-economic groups in residential areas of … and defeat urban poverty in deprived neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Finally the paper questions if an understanding of QoL …

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Spatial Typology of the Ageing Process in the European Union on the Level NUTS 2 Regions

Ivan ?otkovskı - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The article is deal with the spatial differences of the demographic events between European Union regions. We are research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing...

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Immigration in times of crisis: to go or to stay?

Ródenas, Carmen; Martí, Monica; Kostova, Mirostava - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Spain has become a country of immigration very fast and in an unusual way. At the beginning of the year 2000, foreigners represented barely 2% of the total population, a figure which rose to 12% and exceeded 5.7 million in 2012. Considering its population size, Spain was the country which...

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