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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: A survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
functions. Using this definition we identify thirty-nine relevant studies that use either migration or regional economic models … or hedonic pricing techniques. One result from the analysis of migration and regional economic studies is that intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315587
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Income convergence, migration and geography: Distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattso, Jorn - 2010
respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332311
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Natural Disaster, Migration, and Regional Development
Ikazaki, Daisuke - 2015
economic activities and migration. Section 2 introduces a simple matching theory model based on previous studies. This theory …. Results show that once migration and a population drain occur, such fiscal policies might deteriorate the regional economy …
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; van Ommeren, Jos - 2004
improved by decomposing population growth into netinterregional migration and exogenous natural popu1ation developments. We … find thatemployment growth responds quite strongly to deviations from regional labour marketequilibria. Net migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325302
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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America's small towns?
Coates, Dennis; Gindling, T. H. - 2010
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...
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Labor Migration in the European Union: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Schneider, Ondrej - 2021
This paper examines migration trends in the European Union since the enlargements of 2004-2007, which brought 100 … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of … their population since 2006, most of it via negative net migration. In 2019, 18% of Romanians, 14% of Lithuanians, 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695541
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Local Employment Multiplier: Evidence from Relocation of Public-Sector Entities in South Korea
Lee, Hwanoong; Ko, Changsu; Kim, Wookun - 2023
We exploit a series of public-sector entity relocations in South Korea as an exogenous source of variation in public sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment position increases private sector employment by one...
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Disaster (over-)insurance: The long-term financial and socioeconomic consequences of Hurricane Katrina
Bleemer, Zachary; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2017
Federal disaster insurance - in the form of national flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and other programs - is designed to nationally distribute large geography-specific shocks such as earthquakes and hurricanes. This study examines how residents were affected on...
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General Equilibrium Approach consistent with Travel Cost Method for Economic Evaluation of Beach Erosion by Climate Change
Nakajima, Kazunori; Sakamoto, Naoki - 2013
Numerous attempts have been made to evaluate economic impacts by climate change, and the evaluation method can be classified into two approaches. One is a partial equilibrium approach and the other is a general equilibrium approach. The former method includes a travel cost method (TCM) and a...
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Measurement of Use and Non-use Values of Shirakami Mountain Range by using CVM Consistent with TCM
Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - 2013
Shirakami Mountain Range has the largest primeval forest in the world, and has some public functions; the biodiversity function, the water resource cultivation function, the health and recreation function and so on. This study tries to measure its environmental economic value by using the travel...
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