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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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Cities, tasks and skills

Kok, Suzanne; Weel, Bas ter - 2014

largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher … the complementarity between skills and cities. …

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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities

Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and … neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low … households. Urban policy often focusses on reducing segregation through physical measures in cities, such as demolishing houses …

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Top team diversity and business performance : latent class analysis for firms and cities

Nathan, Max - 2014

A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...

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Identifying human capital externalities : theory with an application to US cities

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2002

cities between 1970 and 1990. …

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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model's test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...

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Cities and the sea level

Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021

Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially disaggregated data on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable...

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Employment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across metropolitan status and size

Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020

We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses...

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Rising sea levels and sinking property values : the effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's housing market

Ortega, Francesc; Taṣpınar, Süleyman - 2016

Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to …

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