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the difference between the number of homes that would be built in the absence of supply constraints and the actual number … housing supply problem and the extent to which proposed policies would solve it. However, previous studies understate the … trends prevailed today, even though historical trends were also affected by supply constraints. We are the first to use a …
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Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work …. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and … effect" from unemployment. The estimated models follow a "Hausman-approach". The results indicate that the labour supply …
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Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences …
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that higher taxes are fully passed on to rental prices after three years. The pass-through is lower when housing supply is …
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estimation concerns, we estimate an elasticity of housing production with respect to non-land inputs of about 0.80. …
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In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of industries...
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Recent advancements in data collection have expanded the tools and information available for urban and spatial-based research. This paper presents an overview of spatial big data sources used in urban science and urban economics, with the goal of directing and enriching future research by other...
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What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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administrative data in Singapore, and exploiting the introduction of a regulation that restricted the number of housing units for … increased by 1 to 3% after the regulation was introduced, while the amount of built-up space remained constant. The increase in …
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We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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