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The paper directs attention to the rise of the extreme Right in the context of political and social changes within European societies during the last forty years. This brings the legacy of neoliberalism into focus. The author holds that neoliberalism and the rise of the extreme Right are linked...
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This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing … compile using more than 350 U.S. cities for the years 1984 to 2008. Based on this measurement, we find that our model is …
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cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess … the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a sample of 308 Soviet cities to isolate the impact of closure regulations … and declining thereafter, there are also pervasive differences between controlled and uncontrolled cities, the later …
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cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and … growth, controlling for the usual types of forces used to explain the attractiveness of different cities. We find that even … Russian cities in the immediate pre-transition era. …
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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. …
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microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing developed similarly in cities closer to and farther from universities in the …
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Entrepreneur Law). We intend to present evidence that helps clarify, albeit only partially, whether the policy was successful in …-entrepreneurship, there is evidence that the policy may have achieved this particular goal. It is worth noting, however, that the evidence in … change their working relationships with their employees, from wage-earning work to services rendered. The policy seems to …
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Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both in the US and internationally, and describes...
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use a political-support maximization model with revenue motives to derive conditions under which a rational policy …
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The development and implementation of an efficient institutional food procurement programme (IFPP) - which aims to link smallholder producers to institutional markets and promote development of food supply systems - is not a simple or straightforward task. It requires a series of conditions that...
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