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Residential Mobility of the European Elderly

Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2021

(SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of the elderly and the factors influencing them in eleven European …

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Leaving Home with a Partner

Bentolila, Samuel - 2015

Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …

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Tax Competition and Income Sorting : Evidence from the Zurich Metropolitan Area

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Somogyi, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2009

In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually set tax multipliers thereby shifting the progressive tax scheme which is fixed at the cantonal (state) level...

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Relocation of the Rich : Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes From Spanish Reforms

Agrawal, David R. - 2018

A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....

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East Side Story : Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting

Heblich, Stephan - 2016

Why are the East sides of former industrial cities like London or New York poorer and more deprived? We argue that this observation is the most visible consequence of the historically unequal distribution of air pollutants across neighborhoods. In this paper, we geo-locate nearly 5,000...

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Sprawl and Blight

Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2021

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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The Political Economy of Regional Integration Projects at Borders Where Rich and Poor Meet : The Role of Cross-Border Shopping and Community Sorting

Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - 2021

this paper, we show (i) why a majority of the local electorate often backs this outcome, (ii) how intra-country mobility …

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Commuting Subsidies With Two Transport Modes

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2021

We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which mode to use. When all land is owned by city residents, one group gains from subsidies what the other loses. With absentee landownership, city residents as a group gain at the...

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Delivering Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Quality : A Comparison of Place- and Tenant-Based Programs

Eerola, Essi - 2017

This paper analyzes the relative merits of large place- and tenant-based housing programs in Finland in terms of housing affordability and neighborhood quality. Using hedonic regression methods and household micro data, we find that rent savings to public housing tenants are less targeted...

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