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Private renting in Romania
Gray, Patrick Francis; Epure, Manuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper's aim is to present an overview on the PRS in Romania, emphasizing the main characteristics and the nature of PRS evolution after 1989. The past 20 years reveal some key-changes that occurred in the socio-economic and political life of the country and we have explored them as factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805464
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Sexual orientation and neighborhood quality: Do same-sex couples make better communities?
Fu, Shihe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study provides an initial empirical analysis on identifying the general relationship between housing values and the spatial distribution of same-sex couples across the U.S. The paper uses the 1990 and 2000 census 5% Public Use Microdata Samples and introduces the gay index into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836071
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Large-Scale Redevelopment Initiatives and Home Values: The Case of the Atlanta Beltline Project
Immergluck, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the property value impacts of a very large-scale redevelop initiative in Atlanta. Large impacts are found in lower-income neighborhoods surrounding the proposed project.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619339
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Who Gentrifies Low-income Neighborhoods?
McKinnish, Terra; Walsh, Randall; White, T. Kirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
demographic processes underlying the gentrification of low income urban neighborhoods during the 1990’s. In contrast to previous … studies, the analysis is conducted at the more refined census-tract level with a narrower definition of gentrification and … income gains of the latter that appear to be the main engines of gentrification. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790399
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Economic Analysis of Carnegie Mellon University
Alphin Jr., Henry C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research institution of higher education that is housed in a city that has undergone, and is still undergoing, the change from a manufacturing hub to a center of knowledge enterprise. Although colleges and universities are part of a local oligopoly, CMU is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386714
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Does brain research provide a case for the transfer of public monies to the arts?
Stefan, Mann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper proposes, by way of a theoretical model, that public subsidies for the arts act as a spur to the consumption of the arts which, in turn, increases the level of human capital, leading to increased economic growth. It points out that some recent studies in brain research deliver...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551911
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The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper attempts to examine how social trust influences human capital formation using prefectural level data in Japan. To this end, I constructed a proxy for social trust, based on the Japanese General Social Surveys. After controlling for socioeconomic factors, I found that social trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695053
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Socio-economic Impact of Sethusamudram Project
Kannan, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Any major development project has both benefits and disadvantages to the society. Many development projects have very high economic benefit and at the same time lead to environmental hazard. One such project is Sethudamudram project initiated by Government of India. This is a project which aims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835738
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Socio-economic Impact of Sethusamudram Project
Kannan, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Any major development project has both benefits and disadvantages to the society. Many development projects have very high economic benefit and at the same time lead to environmental hazard. One such project is Sethudamudram project initiated by Government of India. This is a project which aims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836450
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The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper attempts to examine how social trust influences human capital formation using prefectural level data in Japan. To this end, I constructed a proxy for social trust, based on the Japanese General Social Surveys. After controlling for socioeconomic factors, I found that social trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534258