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Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities
Naik, Nikhil - 2015
Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods. Yet, the relationship between the physical and social components of urban change is not well understood due to the lack of comprehensive measures of neighborhood appearance. Here, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457049
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The Area and Population of Cities : New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities
Rozenfeld, Hernán D. - 2009
The distribution of the population of cities has attracted a great deal of attention, in part because it sharply constrains models of local growth. However, to this day, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on the "legal" rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463240
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The Economics of Migration : An Empirical Analysis with Special Referenceto the Role of Job Mobility
Bartel, Ann P. - 1980
This article continues the work on the analysis of the individual's decision to migrate, but differs from the previous studies by focusing on the relationship between job mobility and migration. First, the proportion of geographic mobility that occurs in conjunction with a job change is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478677
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Immigration, trade, and the labor market
Abowd, John M. (ed.); Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor) - 1991
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European Recessions and Native American Conflict
Angel, Marco del; Hess, Gregory D.; Weidenmier, Marc D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
economic conditions in Europe from 1869 to 1890. We hypothesize that contractions in economic activity pushed many Europeans to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172112
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Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses : Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2010
The Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913) was among the largest migration episodes in history. During this period, the United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration while accounting for migrant selection across households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462968
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The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
Bloom, David E. - 2009
We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463827
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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006
The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465924
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466110
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Mass Migration, Commodity Market Integration and Real Wage Convergence : The Late Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy
G, Jeffrey, Williamson - 1993
As part of a process that has been at work since 1850, real wages among the current OECD countries converged during the late 19th century. The convergence was pronounced as that which we have seen in the post World War Il period. This paper uses computable general equilibrium models to isolate...
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