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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare
Sarpça, Sinan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2010
A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...
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European capitals of culture and life satisfaction
Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S.; Hotz, Simone - 2013
This paper analyzes whether hosting the most prestigious European cultural event, the European Capital of Culture, has an impact on regional economic development or the life satisfaction of the local population. Concerning the economic impact, we show that European Capitals are hosted in regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316915
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School density and inequality in student achievement
De la Roca, Jorge; Thiemann, Petra - 2024
In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent residential sorting on school quality can explain this fact. We combine 15 years of data on public elementary school students in North Carolina with geocoded school locations...
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Multimodal transport networks
Fuchs, Simon; Wong, Woan Foong - 2022
The movement of goods from origin to destination takes place over multiple modes of transportation. Correspondingly, intermodal terminals play an important role in facilitating transportation over the multimodal network. This paper studies multimodal transport networks and their impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278187
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Task specialization, immigration, and wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
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Rethinking the gains from immigration: theory and evidence from the US
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2005
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266388
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The effects of immigration on California's labor market
Peri, Giovanni - 2006
As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It also received a very large number of Mexican and uneducated immigrants during the recent decades. If immigration harms the labor...
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Trade and Agglomeration: the Strategic use of Protection Revisited
Thede, Susanna - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the strategic motive for protection present in trade and agglomeration … agglomeration industry. We first investigate unilateral trade policy effects on the international production and trade pattern and … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The …
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Spoils of war: Trade shocks and segmented labor markets in Spain during WWI
Fuchs, Simon - 2021
How does intranational factor mobility shape the welfare effects of a trade shock? I provide evidence that during WWI, a demand shock emanated from belligerent countries and affected neutral Spain. Within Spain, labor predominantly reallocated locally, while the most affected provinces...
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RICE-MED, an integrated assessment model for the Mediterranean basin: assessing the climate-economy-agriculture nexus
Castelli, Chiara; Castellini, Marta; Gusperti, Camilla; … - 2023
In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change...
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