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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
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Trends der Nahversorgung in ländlichen Räumen
Kokorsch, Matthias; Küpper, Patrick - 2019
Seit Jahrzehnten ist der Lebensmitteleinzelhandel von einem Strukturwandel hin zu weniger und größeren Geschäften … Paper aktuelle Studien und die wissenschaftliche Literatur mit besonderem Fokus auf den Lebensmitteleinzelhandel und den … Lebensmitteleinzelhandel sowie der Ersatz kleinerer Märkte durch größere, um eine hinreichende Auswahl für die sich ausdifferenzierende …
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Pilotprojekte zur Sicherung der Nahversorgung in ländlichen Räumen: Start-ups, sozialorientiertes Unternehmertum und Fördermittel als Treiber?
Küpper, Patrick; Mettenberger, Tobias; Bermes, Linda - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 82 (2024) 2, pp. 99-113
Die gängigen Ladenformate sind in Orten mit weniger als 2.500 Einwohnerinnen und Einwohnern kaum noch wirtschaftlichzubetreiben. Der resultierende Rückzug aus der Fläche bietetim Sinne der Spiraltheorie neue kommerzielle Möglichkeiten für innovative Angebotsformen, wie personalfreie...
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Spatial Price Differentiation and Regional Market Power. The Case of Food-Retailing in Austria
Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Sinabell, Franz - 2013
A small number of firms have a large market share in the Austrian food retailing market. Market concentration has been growing over the last years which has raised concerns about market power. Previous studies on price setting behaviour in the food retailing market were at the national level and...
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Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung für Dorfläden: Corona-Pandemie als Katalysator?
Eberhardt, Winfried; Küpper, Patrick; Seel, Matthias - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 80 (2022) 3, pp. 344-359
Lebensmitteleinzelhandel. Wie wirkte sie sich auf Dorfläden und ländliche Verbraucher aus, die traditionell nicht als Digitalisierungspioniere …
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Food retailing, supermarkets and food security: Highlights from Latin America
Arda, Mehmet - 2006
The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developing countries. Urbanization and the liberalization of the services sector have been important...
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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty
Bjerk, David - 2009
across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative …
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Time Zones Matter: The Impact of Distance and Time Zones on Services Trade
Christen, Elisabeth - 2013
Using distance and time zone differences as a measure for coordination costs between service suppliers and consumers, we employ a Hausman-Taylor model for services trade by foreign affiliates. Given the need for proximity in the provision of services, factors like distance place a higher cost...
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity: Evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly over the past three decades. The private and economic costs of this development are substantial, and it has been estimated that its direct and indirect costs now sum to over 1%...
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