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Residential Satisfaction for a Continuum of Households: Evidence from European Countries
Borgoni, Riccardo; Michelangeli, Alessandra; Pirola, … - 2018
Residential satisfaction depends on housing and neighborhood conditions in addition to housing cost affordability. To determine the relative importance of these factors, their average effect is usually estimated using sample data, eventually split in sub-samples in order to represent social...
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Peer interactions, local markets, and wages: Evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Irene; Intraligi, Valerio; Ricci, Andrea; … - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between the spatial distribution of occupations with a high content of peer interactions and wages among Italian provinces. At this aim, we use a unique employer-employee dataset obtained by merging administrative data on wages and labor market histories...
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Self-employment and Okun’s Law relationship: the Spanish case
Porras, María Sylvina; Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2017
The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment-output relationship in Spanish regions. We followed a two-step approach. First, we estimated a set of time-varying Okun’s coefficients (rolling-window) for the autonomous communities in Spain...
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Parental Migration, Investment in Children, and Children's Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from Rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
-provincial migrations. We test four different mechanisms of how parental migration affects child development including parental financial …
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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Remittances and Child Labor in Pakistan: A Tale of Complementarities
Bang, James; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023
We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a … remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child … failed to mitigate household reliance on child labor in Punjab. However, the impact depends critically on whether remittances …
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Exploring the Spillover Effects of Internally Displaced Settlements on the Wellbeing of Children of the Locales
Uchenna, Efobi; Joseph, Ajefu - 2024
heterogeneities between the household and the closest IDP camp, as well as the child's birth year. We find that children residing …
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Hours Worked of the Self-Employed and Agglomeration
Cai, Zhengyu - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States’ coastlines and estimated industry...
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Local Secessions, Homophily, and Growth. A Model with some Evidence from the Regions of Abruzzo and Molise (Italy, 1963)
Dalmazzo, Alberto; de Blasio, Guido; Poy, Samuele - 2017
This paper analyses the case of a local secession, i.e. the birth of a new local jurisdiction by separation from an existing one. We present a stylized model in which society is composed of heterogeneous groups and individuals have an homophily bias. The model predicts that: i) separations, such...
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Government-Led Urbanization and Natural Gas Demand in China
Cai, Zhengyu; Yu, Chin-Hsien; Zhu, Chunhui - 2021
The Chinese government is actively promoting urbanization to stimulate its economic growth while facing increasingly prominent environmental concerns. The main objective of this research is to assess whether the Chinese government is making efforts to promote cleaner energy demand while pushing...
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