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regarding transportation issues, to study spatial segregation and urban accessibility in four Brazilian cities (Belém, Manaus …), as well as axial maps of these cities, according to the methodological tools of the Theory of the Social Logic of Space … series of interpretations over the existing process of "voluntary" and "involuntary" segregation in such cities, highlighting …
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This paper investigates whether the workforce in Brazil is geographically segmented by analyzing variation in workers' earnings. It finds that standard market explanatlons for regional wage disparities, such as variations in the cost of living or workforce quality, can explaln only a part of the...
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City-level policies often aim at attracting skilled workers by improving urban amenities. However, due to endogeneity problems, studies relying on revealed preferences have difficulties in providing evidence for the basic premise that skilled workers place a higher value on urban amenities than...
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we … additional consideration of occupational segregation did not affect these results much. However, by far most of the wage …
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