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Chapter 25. Neighborhood Effects And Housing
Ioannides, Yannis M. - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1281-1340). 2011
This chapter focuses on neighborhood effects in housing markets. Households in effect choose neighborhood effects, or … priced by housing markets and be capitalized into housing values and rents. The chapter focuses on models that are … dimensionality. The chapter examines neighborhood choice, with endogenous and contextual neighborhood effects, and housing demand …
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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...
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Deindustrialization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2015
The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519458
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Deindustrialization and tertiarization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2014
Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...
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Who Voted for Brexit? Individual and Regional Data Combined
Alabrese, Eleonora - 2018
Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and the latter might suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society,...
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Blurring the Formal/Informal Economy Divide : Beyond a Dual Economies Approach
Nadin, Sara - 2015
The need to integrate work beyond employment into discussions of labor practices is widely recognized. This has been so far largely achieved by adopting a dual economies perspective, which is criticized for depicting the formal and informal sectors as separate hostile worlds. To resolve this, an...
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Cross-National Variations in Undeclared Work : Results from a Survey of 27 European Countries
Williams, Colin - 2015
Until now, those seeking to undertake a cross-national comparison of undeclared work have had to rely on tenuous proxy indicators, such as the amount of cash in circulation or the amount of electricity consumed, due to the absence of direct survey evidence. In 2007, however, the first...
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Deindustrialization and the Polarization of Household Incomes : The Example of Urban Agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan - 2015
The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022020
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Evaluating Competing Theories of the Shadow Economy : Some Lessons from an English Locality
Williams, Colin - 2013
This paper evaluates critically the contrasting theories of the nature of the shadow economy that variously read this sector as a leftover of pre-capitalism, a by-product of a new emergent form of capitalism, a complement to formal employment or an alternative to the formal economy. Until now,...
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Urban accessibility and spatial segregation in Brazilian cities : a configurational perspective
Barros, Ana Paula; Medeiros, Valério Augusto Soares de; … - 2017
This article investigates the use of the configurational variable, which deals with the city form-space relations regarding transportation issues, to study spatial segregation and urban accessibility in four Brazilian cities (Belém, Manaus, Recife and São Paulo), with a focus in precarious...
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