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Decisions under Uncertainty in Decentralized Online Markets: Empirical Studies of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Outsourcing
Lin, Mingfeng - 2010
Recent developments in information technologies, especially Web 2.0 technologies, have radically transformed many markets through disintermediation and decentralization. Lower barriers of entry in these markets enable small firms and individuals to engage in transactions that were otherwise...
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The impact of breastfeeding patterns on regional differences in infant mortality in Germany, 1910
Kintner, Hallie J. - 1988
This paper examines the impact of breastfeeding practices on the large regional differences in infant mortality in Germany around 1910. Breastfeeding is strongly negatively associated with infant mortality and remains so after controlling for public health measures and for demographic, economic,...
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The influence of first generation fertility and economic status on second generation fertility
Thornton, Arland - 1980
This paper examines the impact of parental economic status and family size on the actual and expected fertility of adult children using longitudinal data from two generations of families participating in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. There was a modest positive relationship between first...
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Education and labor supply: An extended demographic model of the Chicago region
Campbell, Harrison Sherwood - 1994
This thesis develops an extended demographic model of the Chicago region which projects the educational attributes of the population. The region is further subdivided into two zones, city and suburb, and two racial/ethnic groups are identified and disaggregated according to gender. Central to...
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The “Legible” City
Cséfalvay, Zoltán - 2020
A city like this – where stepping on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge one immediately arrives at the abutment leading to New York City of the Brooklyn Bridge, and what is more, in evening floodlight – obviously does not exist in reality. Yet the message of the advertisement is easy to understand....
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Urban „Space-Twists” – New Challenges of Urban Geography
Izsák, Éva - 2020
In our days, the foremost scene of human life is the city. The history of the last two centuries is also the history of modern cities. At the age of Napoleon, 20% of the population lived in cities, today this ratio is above 50%. Every second human on Earth lives in a city. Possibly, the most...
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The role of geography in the complex diffusion of innovations
Lengyel, Balázs; Bokányi, Eszter; Di Clemente, Riccardo; … - 2020
The urban–rural divide is increasing in modern societies calling for geographical extensions of social influence modelling. Improved understanding of innovation diffusion across locations and through social connections can provide us with new insights into the spread of information,...
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Predicting the regional impact of a full employment policy in Canada: a Box-Jenkins approach
Clark, Gordon L. - 1979
employment policy in Canada: a Box-Jenkins approach', Economic Geography, 55(3), 213-226. … full employment policy in Canada. A brief critique of existing spatial labor market methods is presented. The focus of this … with Brechling-type models. It is argued, on the basis of the derived results, that a full employment policy would …
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The changing composition of regional employment
Clark, Gordon L. - 1984
Non-production workers are an increasing proportion of total manufacturing employment. Lower labor productivity has … causes changes in the composition of employment. Industry and geographical variations are, in fact, found in the significance … this article is not available in ORA. Citation: Clark, G. L. (1984). 'The changing composition of regional employment …
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Towards an alternative conception of job search theory and policy: information as an indeterminate process
Clark, Gordon L. - 1986
The theoretical heritage of job-search models is reconsidered, with a stress on their roots in neoclassical equilibrium theory. A different conception of the 'imperfect' information problem is proposed, namely what is called 'indeterminate' information. Competing economic and geographical models...
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