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The costs of agglomeration : land prices in French cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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Bright minds, big rent : gentrification and the rising returns to skill

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia; Sviatschi, Maria - 2015

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set...

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Search, migration, and urban land use : the case of transportation policies

Zenou, Yves - 2010

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...

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Customary land conversion in African cities

Picard, Pierre M.; Selod, Harris - 2023

We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways....

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show …

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Benefit reentitlement conditions in unemployment insurance schemes

Andersen, Torben M.; Strøm Kristoffersen, Mark; … - 2015

Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit levels and benefit duration. In a search-matching framework we show that benefit duration and...

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Employment polarization in Spain along the cycle 1997 - 2012

Anghel, Brindusa; Rica, Sara de la; Lacuesta, Aitor - 2013

This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way particular sociodemographic adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence of employment polarization between 1997 and 2012 that accelerates over the recession. Changes in...

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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

We investigate whether people are more willing to become self-employed during boom periods or during recessions and to what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany reveals that there is a positive relationship between...

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Health and health behaviors during the worst of times : evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Newborn health and the business cycle : is it good to be born in bad times?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; González, Libertad - 2014

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. Although fertility is lower during recessions, the effect on health is not the result of...

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