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productivity by increasing the rate at which individuals acquire skills. One largely unexplored implication of this theory is that … productivity through a job search and matching process and, thus, that an important aspect of 'learning' in cities may involve …
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We conduct a national-scale study of the determinants of agricultural land values to better understand how current farmland prices are influenced by the potential for future land development. The theoretical basis for the empirical analysis is a spatial city model with stochastic returns to...
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This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
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study area. The principal components analysis of sense of security and crime victimization variables indicates that higher-income … households feel more secure from crime in the home, even though theft and robbery victimization rise with household income and … rent level. Higher levels of home protection measures by higher-income households partially explain this result. …
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