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Das Spannungsfeld zwischen räumlicher Dichte und urbaner Lebensqualität

Züst, Roman - Center for Urban & Real Estate Management <Zürich> - 2008

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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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

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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The Reversal of Fortune Thesis Reconsidered

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Green, Elliott - London School of Economics and Political Science

Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson (2002) have claimed that the world incomedistribution underwent a "Reversal of … Fortune" from 1500 to the present, wherebyformerly rich countries in what is now the developing world became poor … urbanization and population density. First, analternative measure of urbanization with more observations generates a positive …

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size:The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

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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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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WAGES AND THE CITY.THE ITALIAN CASE

Di Addario, Sabrina; Patacchini, Eleonora - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

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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JOB SEARCH IN THICK MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM ITALY

Di Addario, Sabrina - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

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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The effect of large infrastructure on urban development: The example of the canton of Geneva

Stämpfli, Pierre - Center for Urban & Real Estate Management <Zürich> - 2007

This paper is an abstract of the study made for the MAster of Science in real Estate delivered by the Center for Urban and Real Estate Management (CUREM) in Zurich. The Goal was to analyze the relation between big infrastructure and urban development, using a real case. The chosen area for this...

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Urban Management: Wertschöpfungsorientierte Steuerung des urbanen Transformationsprozesses

Bahn, Christopher; Loepfe, Andreas - Center for Urban & Real Estate Management <Zürich> - 2007

In the real estate development process are several key actors involved who have different conceptions of how and which kind of value within the real estate projects is to be obtained. Architects focus on the aesthetic quality of buildings and define value as contribution to the cultural...

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Auflösung des Baurechts im Kontext der städtebaulichen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten

Flepp, Georg - Center for Urban & Real Estate Management <Zürich> - 2009

Der Masterstudiengangdes Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM) vereint in seinem Lehrgang die vielfältigen Perspektiven, Disziplinen und Praxisfelder der Immobilienökonomie. Als Abschlussarbeit haben die Absolventinnen und Absolventen eine Masterthesis zu schreiben, die sich in der...

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