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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
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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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Cities, Tasks and Skills
Kok, Suzanne; ter Weel, Bas - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352294
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Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities
van Ham, Maarten; Tammaru, Tiit; de Vuijst, Elise; … - 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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Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market
Ortega, Francesc; Taspinar, Süleyman - 2016
Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584689
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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the US and UK Using Microdata
Kemeny, Tom; Nathan, Max; O'Brien, Dave - 2018
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets
Indaco, Agustín; Ortega, Francesc; Taspinar, Süleyman - 2018
We analyze the role of flood insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931775
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Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development
Madaleno, Margarida; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry; … - 2018
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899
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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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