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On the Use of Racial Profiling as a Law EnforcementTool

Bunzel, Helle; Marcoul, Philippe - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

interdicteddiffers from the racial composition of the population. Incarceration rates are definedto be racially “fair” if the racial …

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Reexamining Rural Decline: How Changing Rural Classifications Affect Perceived Growth

Artz, Georgeanne M.; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

This article illustrates the commonly overlooked sample selection probleminherent in using rural classification methods that change over time due to populationchanges. Since fast growing rural areas grow out of their rural status, using recent ruraldefinitions excludes the most successful places...

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SCHRUMPFENDE STÄDTE ALS HERAUSFORDERUNG:JAPAN, HOKKAIDŌ UND DER FALL DER STADT YŪBARI

Flüchter, Winfried - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tōkyō> - 2008

fewer than 200,000 inhabitants – in particular those located outside metropolitanareas – suffer population losses due to … since 2005 and is ageing rapidly, most dramatically in remoteareas. In the first part, this paper traces the population … population decline.... …

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Age-Specific Employment Policies

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2002

population. The age composition of the labor force has also changed dramatically, often accompanied by sharp reductions in the …

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Can Racially Unbiased Police Perpetuate Long-RunDiscrimination?

Bunzel, Helle; Marcoul, Philippe - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

racial mix of her stops differs from that of the population. Every period, she observes the racial composition of jail … composition of the jail population to deviate from the "fair" one (one where the racial mix in jails is identical to that in the … criminal population). We compare this to a situation where officers have detailed stop data on each race, similar to data being …

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On the economic impact of the railway project Stuttgart-Ulm in Germany

Maier, Helmut - Leontief-Institut für Wirtschaftsanalyse Berlin - 2011

The German railway project “Stuttgart-Ulm” is part of the high-speed line between Paris/France and Budapest/Hungary as … discussed very controversially within local and regional population. As for the economic impact, ministry for internal affairs …

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State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods: An Overview of Recent Trends

Schill, Michael H.; Daniels, Glynis - Center for Urban Policy Research <New Brunswick, NJ> - 2003

New York City is well-known for the special challenges itfaces in providing the largest urban population in theUnited …

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Welfare Reform and New York City’s Low-Income Population

Chernick, Howard; Reimers, Cordelia - Graduate School and University Center <New York, NY> - 2001

[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...

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Using Financial Incentives to Encourage Welfare Recipients to BecomeEconomically Self-Sufficient

Robins, Philip K.; Michalopoulos, Charles - University of Miami <Coral Gables, Fla.>; Manpower … - 2001

[...]One of the primary goals of TANF is to move welfarerecipients into work and economic self-sufficiency. Althoughstates were given much flexibility in how to achieve this goal, thefederal government imposed some guidelines in the form ofrequirements that welfare recipients be participating in...

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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends

Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

In the field of housing economics, there is a long traditionof evaluating housing outcomes for the entire populationand various subgroups by tracking four key variables, orconcepts: the physical adequacy of the occupied housingunit, the number of people living in the unit relative to thenumber...

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