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Using individual panel data from Australia, this paper finds that people in urban areas are less happy than those in other areas. In fixed effects models, the urban effect on happiness is estimated by comparing the happiness levels of migrants when they are in urban areas to levels in other...
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Economic activity in the New York region depends heavily on the health sector - a sector that helped buoy New York's economy during the region's 1989-92 downturn. But with fundamental changes occuring in health care, will the sector still bolster the region's economy in the years to come?
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, on the growth of state-level employment. However, no one has investigated whether the effects differ by wage level. Using … a state-level panel data set, we investigate the link between state-local taxes and the growth of employment for three … wage-level categories. We find weak evidence supporting the proposition that the response of employment growth to changes …
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We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …
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In New York City, tourism has made impressive gains in recent years, particularly in the foreign visitor segment. While not large enough to propel the city's economy, this long-term growth industry is critical to maintaining the local export base and providing jobs to low-skilled workers
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Although New York City's payroll employment is rising briskly, it still falls short of its 2001 peak, raising concerns … significantly healthier than the payroll count indicates. Indeed, a measure of employment among New York City residents shows a …
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In this paper we study a class of evolutionary models of industrial agglomeration with local positive feedbacks, which allow for a wide set of empirically-testable implications. Their roots rest in the Generalized Polya Urn framework. Here, however, we build on a birth-death process over a...
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indicated by employment growth or an increasing wage bill. -- Culture ; Regional Development ; Bohemians ; Creative Class …
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This paper proposes a model of urban agglomeration in conjunction with imperfect competition and endogenous product R&D of firms. The quality of differentiated manufacturing goods is a result of R&D services provided by research firms. Sectoral interactions are subject to spatially dependent...
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