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Urbanization, natural amenities, and subjective well-being : evidence from US counties
Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - 2015
the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510042
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Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? : local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221796
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The dire consequences of untamed population growth in the Netherlands
Hartog, Joop - 2024
In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population growth, and from 1950 to 2020, population increased by 73%, double the European rate, in a country with population density already among the highest in Europe. Yet, there never...
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The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labour markets: evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
Seltzer, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS …
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Determinants of employer-provided further training : a multi-level approach
Bellmann, Lutz; Hohendanner, Christian; Hujer, Reinhard - 2010
We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment rate and the regional concentration of an industry against the background of several determinants...
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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
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Urban density and COVID-19
Carozzi, Felipe; Provenzano, Sandro; Roth, Sefi - 2020
This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit geological features and historical populations to induce exogenous variation...
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Walled cities and urban density in China
Du, Rui; Zhang, Junfu - 2018
Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...
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Ethnic networks and employment outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652708
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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014
virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …
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