Im Mittelpunkt unseres Forschungsinteresses stand das Binnenwanderungsgeschehen in Deutschland zwischen 2000 und 2022 (Makroebene) und, mit einem Fokus auf den Zeitraum 2015 bis 2020, die dafür auf der Mikroebene der Haushalte ausschlaggebenden Entscheidungen. Als Wohnstandortentscheidungen...

The study of the impact of institutions on entrepreneurship has been a topic of great interest in recent years. Nevertheless, less attention has been paid to the relation that can exist between the spatial context and the entrepreneurial activities. Specifically, institutions and the space of...

Income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern since the 1980s. Inequality did indeed increase since then, particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, policies of encouraging permanent and temporary immigration led to the foreign born accounting for a growing share of the...

Decreasing number of students in Germany lead to the closures of schools due to lack of utilization. Hence, competition between schools will increase. We use a mixed multinomial logit model in order to identify influencing factors of school choice and to regard realistic substitution patterns...

The Change of Support Problem (COSP) reflects a possibility that the outcome of an urban analysis may depend critically on the researcher's choice of territorial units. To verify this assumption, the present study examines the association between population growth and population size of...

Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing expansion phenomena both in terms of population and extension. Naturally, these processes did not occur homogeneously throughout the territories. Through the last decade, population in suburbs...

This paper presents the various analytical steps and methods which have led to the creation of a geodatabase of urban settlements in Europe based on the integration of contiguous 1x1 square km. grid cells with specific population thresholds, and the delimitation and classification of those among...

This paper explores aid effectiveness by studying the effect of aid, aid volatility, and key development indicators, focusing on safe access to water and sanitation (W&S) in both urban and rural areas. Despite the importance of official development assistance (ODA) for these two subsectors,...

Um die individuelle Akzeptanz und gesellschaftliche Verbreitung technologischer Neuerungen in Form von Elektrofahrzeugen angemessen einschätzen zu können, muss die Perspektive eines potenziellen Nutzers und seines Entscheidungsverhaltens berücksichtigt werden. In Anbetracht dessen liefert der...

This paper analyzes how gasoline price is related to the time workers in the US spend commuting by private vehicle, public transport, walking, or cycling. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2019, and collecting data on gasoline price by state and year, we find that...