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Berliant, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Applications of the framework of behavioral economics to questions arising from urban economics are discussed. Directions for future research are outlined.

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REPRODUCCIÓN PRECARIA EN LOS HOGARES MEXICANOS, UN MARCO REFERENCIA

Reveles, Acosta; Lorena, Irma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

From beginning of the eighties decade, with the arrival of the neoliberalism to Mexico, the familiar homes have experimented an adjustment in their income and expenses composition. These adjustments are linked directly to the changes in the labour and the reform of the State, and both are the...

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הגירה פנימית בישראל

Braude, Kobi; Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper characterizes families that changed their locality of residence within Israel – internal migration. The … 17 percent of the families examined changing their locality; the likelihood of migrating rises with income and … flow of strong families – from the metropolitan areas as well as from the development towns – to smaller and more …

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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Using a matched employer-employee database for Italy we look at the spatial distribution of wages across provinces. This rich database allows us to contribute at opening the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of the interaction among economic agents, both...

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Contributo para uma visao economica do associativismo religioso - o caso das confrarias activas de Lisboa

Mourao, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Where are the brotherhoods of the Patriarchate of Lisbon? Why are these brotherhoods located in such spaces? The present work answers to these two questions, being a pioneer attempt about the thematic, in Portugal. Through the empirical validation recurring to logit models, this paper identifies...

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If Alonso was Right: Residual Land Price, Accessibility and Urban Attraction

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study investigates whether accessibility shapes the attractiveness of residential land as predicted by theory. A spatial hedonic analysis is conducted for the metropolitan area of Berlin, Germany, using a large set of georeferenced property transactions and micro-level data. We find that...

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Household Income Determination and Regional Income Differential in Rural China

meng, xin; wu, harry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Regional income dispersion is a sensitive issue in China in terms of judging the impact of economic reform. This study looks closely at the issue as to what are the determinants of income variation among households in general, and which are the key determinants of income dispersion among...

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The long-term decline of internal migration in Canada – Ontario as a case study

Basher, Syed A.; Fachin, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Migration between the Canadian provinces generally followed a declining trend over the period 1971-2004. In this paper, taking Ontario a case study, we seek to explain these patterns using recent panel cointegration methods that are robust to cross-section dependence. Estimation of heterogenous...

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Migration and Poverty in Mexico’s Southern States

Wodon, Quentin; Angel-Urdinola, Diego; Gonzalez-Konig, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

While Mexico's southern states differ substantially in terms of their migration profile, many of the issues confronted by the three states are the same. In this paper, we focus on five questions: (a) How large are migration flows, and what can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does...

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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy

Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...

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