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Alternative hedonic model formulations are used to compare predicted and observed prices of property transactions in alternative locations. The estimation of model parameters is based on data from Western Norway, and alternative model formulations primarily differ with respect to how spatial...
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The starting point of this paper is a hedonic regression model where house prices are explained as a result of urban attraction and the accessibility to job opportunities in the region. We introduce the hypothesis that households in addition value accessibility to job opportunities in the...
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We primarily focus on explaining housing prices and predicting housing price gradients in a Norwegian region with one dominating center (Stavanger). For such a geography spatial separation can be represented in a hedonic regression equation by a function of traveling distance from the city...
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Through a hedonic approach this study primarily focuses on how house prices vary systematically with respect to some general spatial structure characteristics in a Norwegian region. The introduction of a gravity based labor market accessibility measure contributes significantly to explain...
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School attendance boundaries are a contentious issue in New Zealand, and have been relaxed and re-imposed depending upon political sentiment. Critics contend that a supposedly egalitarian state school system becomes one of selection by mortgage, with the value of ‘free’ schools capitalized...
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We test for efficiency in the market for Swedish co-ops by examining the negative relationship between the sales price and the present value of future rents. If the co-op housing market is efficient, the present value of co-op rental payments due to underlying debt obligations of the cooperative...
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In this paper discrete-time duration analysis is used to identify differences in the internal migration of immigrants … and natives following job displacement. Human capital theory presents us with two hypotheses. One is based on immigrants … other is based on ethnicity, immigrants living in ethnic enclaves will have higher costs to migration out of the enclave …
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A key question underpinning health production, and one that remains relatively unexplored, is the influence of socio-economic and environmental factors on weight gain and obesity. Such issues acquire particular relevance when data from two Mediterranean countries (Italy and Spain) are compared....
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do not utilize state-subsidized day-care centres. We find that natives and non-Western immigrants quit the labour market …. However, the effect is trivial for natives whereas it is more significant for immigrants. Given participation, earnings of … natives and all groups of female immigrants fell after the cash-benefit reform. Specifically, earnings of non …
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Using a unique data set on immigrants living in France in 2003, we investigate whether Muslims invest differently in … between the children of Muslim and non-Muslim immigrants stem from differences between or within families. After controlling … to immigrants with other religion, but the intra-family inequality remains difficult to explain. Overall, our results …
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