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-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …
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infrastructure and services and intra-urban variation in residents level of neighbourhood confidence in Abeokuta Nigeria. The ….4 in the older, newer and GRA residential areas. Similarly, the mean neighbourhood confidence indices for the older …
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models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages … asymmetric learning, with adverse selection in the lateral hiring market and higher wages for new entrants to the labor market …-evaluate the ability of their incumbent female workers, leading to failure to promote, lower wages, and anchoring in the lateral …
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relatively sudden in-migration of wealthy or middle class residents into a previously poor or working class neighbourhood. I … measure this using the change in share of neighbourhood population that holds a degree certificate conditional on the initial …
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Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax treatment of owner-occupied housing on economic efficiency and growth are well documented in the economics literature. The main argument in favor of subsidizing owner-occupied...
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I examine the CRA's impact on the approval rates of non-prime loans that consist of higher-priced subprime loans and loans guaranteed by the FHA. Although both loans are for riskier borrowers, subprime lending has been largely responsible for the mortgage crisis in the United States. I use loan...
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Concentrated poverty has been said to impose a double burden on those that confront it. In addition to an individual's own financial constraints, institutions and social networks of poor neighborhoods can further limit access to quality services and resources for those that live there. This...
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In the past few decades, across the United States, middle- and upper-class whites have been returning to those they abandoned in the 1970's, attracting renewed investment from public and private actors to once-disinvested neighborhoods. Meanwhile, lower-income communities of color who remained...
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Many postwar neighborhood across the United States are exhibiting signs of decline previously only observed in older central cities. With the characteristics of postwar housing being arguably undesirable by current standards, extant literature claims this functional obsolescence is contributing...
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