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In einer berühmten Stadt geboren zu sein, ist die erste Vorraussetzung zum Glück, behauptete Euripides. Städte sind, eher noch als Länder, die wahre heimat eines Menschen. Sie zählen zu seinen stolzesten errungenschaften; vor allem sind sie dauerhafter als Länder mit ihrer...
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Das einführende Zitat zeigt, dass Urbanisierungsprozesse die Siedlungsentwicklung und somit die Stadtstrukturen verändern können. Die Folge sind Verschmelzungen von Stadt und Land. Man spricht hier von der "Zwischenstadt". Diese Prozesse sind in Städten in ganz Europa feststellbar. Es...
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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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We analyze empirically the impact of urban agglomeration on Italian wages. Using micro-data from the Bank of Italy'sSurvey of Household Income and Wealth for the years 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2002 on more than 22,000 employeesdistributed in 242 randomly drawn local labor markets (30 percent of the...
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conditional on having searched, and I test whether these are affectedby urbanization, industry localization, labor pooling and … family network quality. In general, themain results indicate that urbanization and labor pooling raise job seekers’ chances …
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Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...
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urbanization and population density. First, analternative measure of urbanization with more observations generates a positive …
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fixedeffects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Province’s competition, urban amenitiesand dis-amenities, cost of labor … percent of thenegative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of negativelarge …
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We present an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economywhere knowledge is an essential input in … designed to use and communicate their knowledge efficiently. Relativeto autarky, organization leads to larger cross … acquire knowledge lead to opposite implicationson wage inequality and organization than reductions in communication costs.[...] …
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The knowledge economy is nothing new. As Chandler’s (1977) classic study documents,improvements in communication …
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