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The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability
Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research <New York, NY> / …; … - 2003
[...]In this paper, after first surveying housing costs in theUnited States, we examine why the expensive places have … suchhigh housing costs. High-cost places generally have either veryattractive local amenities (great weather or good schools … equilibrium. Instead, we focus on therole of housing supply. What is it that creates places where thecost of housing is so much …
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The Impacts of New Neighborhoods on Poor Families: Evaluating thePolicy Implications of the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration
Goering, John - City University <New York, NY> - 2003
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s(HUD) Moving to Opportunity for Fair HousingDemonstration, or MTO … significantly affect the life chances of lowincomepublic housing residents. This paper provides the firstsystematic overview of the … explores the MTO’s relevance to socialscience research concerning housing and neighborhood effects. We begin with the social …
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DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …
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Trajectories for the Immigrant Second Generation in New York City
Mollenkopf, John - University of the State of New York <Albany, NY> - 2005
It has become a truism to say that immigration hastransformed American society since 1965. Beginning with“gateway” cities like New York and Los Angeles, the effect ofnew immigrants now extends to small pork- or chickenprocessingtowns in Iowa or North Carolina. Indeed, theMarch 2004 annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869706
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Immigration, Health, and New York City: Early Results Based on the U.S. New Immigrant Cohort of 2003
Jasso, Guillermina; Massey, Douglas S.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - New York University / Department of Economics; … - 2005
[...]Immigrants settle in one point within the vast U.S.geography. Classically, there are four great reception areas:the two coasts, Chicago, and the southern border. New YorkCity was the gateway for the great migrations of the turn ofthe twentieth century, and it remains a major destination...
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Public Education in the Dynamic City: Lessons from New York City
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna - New York University / Department of Economics - 2005
[...]Nonetheless, not all the news is bad. As we describe in detail,our work on New York City’s public schools—which includesextensive research on immigrant children—and our separate work on school reform offer several reasons for optimism.First, immigrant students, who might be viewed as...
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Terrorism and the Resilience of Cities
Harrigan, James; Martin, Philippe - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2002
[...]In this article, we consider what these risks, and the publicperception of them, mean for cities in general and for thefuture of New York City in particular. We begin by examiningthe question of why cities exist at all. Only by answering thisimportant question can we think more clearly...
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Die neuen Grundsätze ordnungsmäßiger Modellierung
Schütte, Reinhard - 1997
Der Informationsmodellierung liegt die Annahme zugrunde, daß komplexe Probleme mit Hilfe von Informationsmodellen besser handhabbar sind. Das traditionelle Modellverständnis, das unter einem Modell das Abbild eines Realitätsausschnitts versteht, wird abgelehnt.(...)
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Konzeptionelle Grundsätze der Umweltleistungsmessung in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
Günther, Edeltraud; Uhr, Wolfgang; Kaulich, Susann; … - 2002
Im betrieblichen Umweltmanagement wird heute nach den tatsächlichen Ergebnissen eines Umweltmanagementsystems sowie nach konsistenten Kriterien zur deren Messung, Bewertung und Beurteilung gefragt. Dem Ausspruch Galileo Galilei's "Messen, was messbar ist - Messbar machen, was nicht messbar ist"...
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Der Spiegel
Augstein, Rudolf (contributor) - Der Spiegel GmbH & Co. KG; SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf …
Spiegel Online informiert über verschiedene aktuelle Themen wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur sowie Wissenschaft und Gesundheit.
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