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The Influence of Neighborhood Characteristics on Wages and Labor Supply in an Urban Context: The Case of a Latin-American City
Morales, Leonardo Fabio; Cardona-Sosa, Lina Marcela - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2014
characteristics determines wages and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to construct measures of the quality of … environments where workers live. This paper focuses in the impact in labor supply and wages of the following set of characteristics … estimation of linear equations for wages and worked hours, and we control for the selection of individuals into the neighborhoods …
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Calidad de los vecindarios y oferta laboral femenina en un contexto urbano: un caso aplicado a la ciudad de Medellín
Morales, Leonardo Fabio; Cardona-Sosa, Lina - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2015
En este trabajo evaluamos como la calidad del vecindario afecta resultados laborales de una muestra aleatoria de individuos en la ciudad de Medellín. El trabajo profundiza el análisis para el caso de las mujeres, cuyo estatus en el mercado laboral (participación, horas laboradas y...
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Metodologia - O Sector Informal em Moçambique: Resultados do Primeiro Inquérito Nacional (2005)
Calzaroni, Manlio; Cappiello, Antonio; Della Rocca, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
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Revisiting the Apparent Paradox: Foreign Capital Inflow, Welfare Amelioration and ‘Jobless Growth’ with Agricultural Dualism and Non-traded Intermediate Input
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In order to answer the pertinent question why developing countries are showing penchant for foreign capital over the last two decades in spite of its detrimental effects as revealed from the conventional two-sector mobile capital version of Harris–Todaro (HT) model in the presence of...
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Revisiting the Apparent Paradox: Foreign Capital Inflow, Welfare Amelioration and ‘Jobless Growth’ with Agricultural Dualism and Non-traded Intermediate Input
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu - In: Journal of Economic Integration 27 (2012), pp. 123-133
In order to answer the pertinent question why developing countries are showing penchant for foreign capital over the last two decades in spite of its detrimental effects as revealed from the conventional two-sector mobile capital version of Harris–Todaro (HT) model in the presence of...
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Dynamique des profits des micro-entreprises urbaines et genre à Madagascar. Une approche de régressions quantiles
Lachaud, Jean-Pierre - Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université … - 2010
Fondée sur les enquêtes prioritaires de Madagascar de 2001 et 2005, la présente recherche examine la dynamique des profits des micro-entreprises urbaines selon le genre. Premièrement, la dualité des systèmes productifs à propre compte urbains selon le genre est assez stable au cours de la...
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Internet use in Spain: influence of regional and socio-demographic factors
Lera-López, Lera-López , Fernando; Gil Izquierdo, María - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 16, pp. 93-115
This paper analyzes the impact of a variety of socioeconomic and regional factors to explain Internet use by individuals in Spain. Using probit models we obtain that socio-demographic variables explain Internet use in Spain. The influence of education, age and occupation seem to be particularly...
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Prostorna elastičnost traženih cijena stanova na stambenom tržištu Grada Zagreba
Boras, Tamara; Tica, Josip - Ekonomski Fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu - 2013
Cilj ovoga rada je procjena utjecaja udaljenosti na cijene stambenih objekata u Gradu Zagrebu. Procijenjeni hedonički ekonometrijski model potvrđuje teoretska predviđanja teorije bid-rent krivulje o negativnom utjecaju prostorne udaljenosti od centra grada na cijenu nekretnina. Nagib bid-rent...
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Maintaining an Efficient and Equitable Housing Market in Belgium
Zwart, Sanne - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
Housing conditions in Belgium are among the best in OECD countries according to the Better Life Index, as dwellings are of high quality and large, and housing costs are average. However, the steep increase in house prices since 2003 has put market access for first-time buyers under pressure....
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