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The criminality sprawl: The 'Boomerang effect' of public transport improvements

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper aims to reveal the importance of public transport policies in the evolution of crime configuration and so, the vital responsibility of urban transports and criminality in social sprawl, entrepreneurial configuration and social structure on a city. Public transport policies have an...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Does the nationality of migrants arriving in any particular territory make a difference for long-term economic … settlement patterns of European migrants according to national origin affected economic development across US counties. It uses … coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of …

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Divorce and the birth control pill

MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...

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Efficiency Assessment of Regional Social and Demographic Process Management: Global Trends and Regional Specifics

Vasilyeva, Elena - European Regional Science Association - 2013

through the lenses of global trends (small number of children in a nuclear family, higher life expectancy rate, objective …

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Child Poverty in a Regional Perspective: A Study of Sweden 1990 and 2010

Rauhut, Daniel; Lingarde, Svante - European Regional Science Association - 2013

, which does not contain information on single individuals. The regional share of children living on economic assistance in … regional share of single parents, regional sickness leave, regional mean personal income and mean regional transfers per person … children living on economic assistance; being unable to enter the labour market is the most probable reason. Higher incomes …

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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

of potential migrants today. A potential shortcoming of the approach is that we do not take account of selective …

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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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