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Hanlon, W. Walker - 2020

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks to new technologies that have made available increasingly rich data stretching far back in time. The focus is...

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The Dynamics of City Formation

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2008

This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

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Urban Colossus : Why is New York America's Largest City?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2005

New York has been remarkably successful relative to any other large city outside of the sunbelt and it remains the nation's premier metropolis. What accounts for New York's rise and continuing success? The rise of New York in the early nineteenth century is the result of technological changes...

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Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities

Shertzer, Allison - 2016

Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet we know surprisingly little about its long-run impacts. We provide the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulation over the long term, using as our setting Chicago's first (1923) comprehensive zoning ordinance. Our...

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Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities

Shertzer, Allison - 2016

Residential segregation by race grew sharply during the early twentieth century as black migrants from the South arrived in northern cities. The existing literature emphasizes collective action by whites to restrict where blacks could live as the driving force behind this rapid rise in...

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The Economics of Density : Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2014

This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which...

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …

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International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing

Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2019

, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …

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The China Shock and Employment in Portuguese Firms

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2019

This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … examine direct competition in the Portuguese market and indirect competition Portugal's largest export markets in Western … export markets, but minimal effects of direct competition in Portugal. Our findings also suggest a centrally important role …

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