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landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those …
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In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, but this need not indicate localized human capital externalities are at work. A large initial share...
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rural land is more valuable today and discourages urban sprawl. We find that historically walled cities still have higher …
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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 inequality and urban development processes. This paper will examine …
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In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...
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This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite … investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport, with adverse effects on commuting time. The model allows us to … and have been replaced by service workers is studied. In such an equilibrium urban amenities are at their maximum and …
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society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to … marginalized in SRPs and residents have become more empowered in the land expropriation taking place in urban redevelopment …
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. On a more general level, our results suggest that the recent model by Duranton is a powerful description of the urban … urban growth …
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What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build …
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technological and social components are necessary to promote the development of an optimal and a smart urban development model. The … necessity of an optimal and targeted urban infrastructure investment strategy emerges from our analysis. We briefly discuss the …
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