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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

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Cities and Entrepreneurs Over Time : Like a Horse and Carriage?

Naudé, Wim - 2017

(urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and … cities'. Three main challenges during these stages, as far as the role of entrepreneurs are concerned, relates to (i) rising … impacts of technology that could make centralization in cities for business purposes unnecessary. Entrepreneurs have important …

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Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation : Does it Matter Where You Live?

Whelan, Adele; Devlin, Anne; McGuinness, Seamus - 2023

Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique administrative dataset for Ireland's dominant social inclusion programme, this paper examines the effect of...

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The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods : Selective Migration and Upgrading

Zwiers, Merle - 2017

In the last few decades, urban restructuring programs have been implemented in many Western European cities with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighborhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The...

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Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change : A Social Mobility Approach

Modai-Snir, Tal - 2017

Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is a complex phenomenon which is driven by multiple macro- and micro-level processes. Most theoretical and empirical work has focused on the role of urban-level processes, such as filtering, life-cycle, and social dynamics. For individual neighbourhoods, these...

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Inequality, Reordering and Divergent Growth : Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities

Modai-Snir, Tal - 2018

The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...

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The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv

Modai-Snir, Tal - 2017

Many studies of urban and neighbourhood change investigate changes in the relative positions of neighbourhoods within an urban region, without looking at the underlying processes. Often, changes in socio-spatial structures reflect intensifying socio-spatial divisions caused by both increasing...

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Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood : An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland

Vaalavuo, Maria - 2017

Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants' opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This paper adds to existing research on exits from poor...

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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities : Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Musterd, Sako - 2016

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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Divided Cities : Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Zwiers, Merle - 2015

There is increasing evidence that our societies are polarizing. Most studies focus on labour market and educational outcomes and show a socioeconomic polarization of the bottom and top ends of the population distribution. Processes of social polarization have a spatial dimension which should be...

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