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This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...
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This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931646
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...
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disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … asymmetries. Minority groups necessarily suffer disproportionately from segregation, since the degree to which transactions …
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illustrate the importance of detailed neighbourhood information we compare social and ethnic segregation measured by Isolation …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative …
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This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France … from 1968 to 1999 using census data. During this period, European and non-European immigrant segregation followed diverging … and highlights how public housing participation is related to contemporary segregation. At the macro-geographical level …
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In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
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