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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D.; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252703
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Do international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigration? : a longitudinal study of 28 European countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023
Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546037
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Social interactions and labor market outcomes in cities
Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646730
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Immigration and housing rents in American cities
Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2006
Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339782
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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009
Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879342
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Immigration and housing booms : evidence from Spain
González, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879367
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901993
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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
comes from what promises to be a long-term divergence between Germany and Italy, which for the time being was offset by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429626
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A spatio-temporal model of house prices in the US
Holly, Sean (contributor); Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to apply recent advances in the econometrics of panel data to a problem that has a clear spatial dimension. We model the dynamic adjustment of real house prices using data at the level of US States. In the last decade, in most OECD countries there has been a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003473888
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Spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK
Holly, Sean; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2010
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to illustrate its use. Adjustment to shocks involves both a region specific and a spatial effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934196