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Stirring Up a Hornets' Nest : Geographic Distribution of Crime
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some …
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Urban Inequality
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008
What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and …
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Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control : An Overview
Cook, Philip J. - 2008
Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The … statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely … uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across cities. The ups and downs of crime have a considerable effect on …
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The Introduction of Crack Cocaine and the Rise in Urban Crime Rates
Grogger, Jeff - 1998
effect of the introduction of crack on urban crime. We" study this question using FBI crime rates for 27 metropolitan areas … has substantial effects on violent crime but essentially no effect" on property crime. We explain these results by … inelastic demand, a technological innovation increases violence on the part of distributors but" decreases property crime on the …
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Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
Garriga, Carlos - 2020
This paper uses a dynamic competitive spatial equilibrium framework to evaluate the contribution of rural-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress drives workers facing heterogeneous mobility costs to...
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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that...
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from Within China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2001
In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese regions. The literature on cross-country studies has been criticized because differences in legal systems and other institutions across countries are difficult to control for, and...
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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration
Lagakos, David - 2018
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...
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Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017
Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many developing countries, we construct a micro founded dynamic framework to explore how important education-based migration is, as opposed to work-based migration, for economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453775
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Redistribution Through Public Employment : The Case of Italy
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as...
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