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Space has long been studied in relationships with Geography, Economy, and Management. These sectors pay attention to … the influence of space in their own analysis and some effort has already made to define space. This lack of definition is … environment where relationship with space is no longer just reducing distances but trying to propose the right conditions for the …
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Corporate social responsibility is increasingly discussed in economics and management studies today. Corporate leaders often make use of this concept, which finds its origins in philosophy, to analyse the normative behaviour of their companies. But what exactly is corporate responsibility? Is it...
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The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Information Systems and Ecology …
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The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information Communication Technology. In the first part, we will present, through a review of the literature, the rather negative role played by ICT on the environment: paper, transportation,...
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level of segregation in a fixed-size city where consumers differ both in income and taste. In this city, the market … allocation of the population is characterized by partial segregation: both rich and poor consumers can be found in both … segregation if applicants are not screened according to their income level. Any departure from the optimal level of screening has …
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large proportion of agents and the degree of segregation of these cooperatives. Three factors can explain the existence …, stability and lack of segregation. First, we show that the classical explanation in economics holds within the framework of our … their income - the higher the risk aversion, the more stable the cooperatives and the lower the segregation. Learning can …
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This paper develops a simple model to explain two stylised facts about immigration. First, some countries have a low ratio of migrants in their population, while other wealthy countries have a high number of migrants. In fact such migrants are of the same order of magnitude as their domestic...
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also show that, if there are more than one public good, this condition is not sufficient for segregation unless households … preferences are additively separable. Since this condition is necessary and sufficient for the segregation of stable jurisdiction … segregation. …
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In his 1971's Dynamic Models of Segregation paper, the economist Thomas C. Schelling showed that a small preference for … one's neighbors to be of the same color could lead to total segregation, even if total segregation does not correspond to … deepening the understanding of the properties of dynamic models of segregation based on Schelling's hypotheses. Its main …
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allocation of workers throughout space. …
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