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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

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Regional equilibrium unemployment theory at the age of the internet

Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move … (2011). We study numerically the impacts of various local shocks in a stylized US economy. Contrary to what could be …, the regional unemployment rates are much lower than in the decentralized economy and nobody searches in the other region. …

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

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Spatial frictions

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2013

cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a …

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Using spatial econometric techniques to analyze the joint employment decisions of spouses

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2014

Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...

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Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: a spatial autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021

The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...

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Inter-city spillover and intra-city agglomeration effects among local labour markets in China

Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti; Liang, Xuan - 2019

confirms the existence of agglomeration economy within cities. We also find significant differences in both the direct and …

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Freedom from the tyranny of neighbourhood : rethinking socio-spatial context effects

Petrović, Ana; Manley, David; Ham, Maarten van - 2018

Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that different geographies and scales affect individual outcomes. We argue that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the tyranny of neighbourhood and consider alternative ways to measure the wider socio-spatial context of people,...

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Network effects on labor contracts of internal migrants in China : a spatial autoregressive model

Baltagi, Badi H.; Deng, Ying; Ma, Xiangjun - 2017

This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours, and provide less insurance or on-the-job...

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