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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Kumar Das, Pranab; Kar, Saibal; Kayal, Madhumanti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India. In several districts of West Bengal in India...

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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …

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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China

Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Province’s competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …

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