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Immigrant Distribution in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Immigrant distribution--the geographic dispersion of immigrants in the destination country--was a major issue in the United States in the late Age of Mass Migration. Policy debates were influenced by the widely held view that the new immigrants were generally less geographically mobile within...
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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
Morten, Melanie - 2016
How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456517
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Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care : Evidence from Patient Migration
Finkelstein, Amy - 2014
We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand differences driven by both observable and...
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Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Cai, Sheng; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Xiang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a dynamic spatial growth model to explore the role of trade and internal migration in the process of spatial development and aggregate growth. Growth is shaped by the best global and local ideas that contribute to the local stock of knowledge. Global ideas diffuse more to locations...
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Urban Sprawl and Social Capital : Evidence from Indonesian Cities
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Rothenberg, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...
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Suburbanization in the United States 1970-2010
Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The second half of the twentieth century saw large-scale suburbanization in the United States, with the median share of … methodology for discriminating between the three leading explanations for this suburbanization (workplace attractiveness …
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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … stable segregation suggests job suburbanization may have increased black-white labor market inequality. Exploiting variation … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452992
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Delmas, Magali A. - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
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