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Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses...
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Working from Home Around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
results to explain the big shift to WFH and to consider some implications for workers, organization, cities, and the pace of …
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Can Crises Affect Citizen Activism? Evidence from a Pandemic
Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2024
We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether major crises that impact the well-being of a large number of individuals can be catalysts for civic activism. Exploiting state-level variation in COVID-19 peaks and...
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The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times
Molina, Teresa; Cho, Yoon Y. - 2024
When it comes to mental health, do social protection programs matter more in times of crisis? Using panel data from the …
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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...
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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. …
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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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