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Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique administrative dataset for Ireland's dominant social inclusion programme, this paper examines the effect of...
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Neighborhood renewal programs are a type of place-based policy that aim to revive underperforming localities. The literature on place-based policies has found mixed results regarding their effects on local labor market outcomes, but there are relatively few studies of policies that aim to...
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In Deutschland gibt es aktuell eine rege wohnungsmarktpolitische Diskussion bezüglich verschiedener staatlicher Eingriffe. Zur Bereicherung dieser Diskussion kann es hilfreich sein, die Umsetzung von Fördermaßnahmen in anderen Ländern näher zu betrachten. In diesem Artikel wird die...
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The paper estimates the local effects of urban regeneration policies by using evidence from interventions that took place in small and medium-sized cities in the Centre and North of Italy over the period 2008-12. By using an Oaxaca-Blinder reweighting estimator, we find little support for the...
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Georgia offers the most generous incentives for motion picture and video production in the United States, providing a tax credit of up to 30 percent of qualified expenditures for film and video production within the state. Though the tax credits represent a significant cost to Georgia's treasury...
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This paper uses long-term regional construction data to investigate whether increases infrastructure investment in the English regions leads to subsequent rises in housebuilding and new commercial property, using time series modeling. Both physical (roads and harbours) and social infrastructure...
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Vermont towns are required to have a town plan. The responsibility of the town planning department, the plan is comprehensive and details the current state of the town and embodies the residents’ vision of the town’s future. Town plans should be compatible with the plans of neighboring...
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could suppress regional, or dependent, economy income and productivity. We investigate this hypothesis by analysing around 2 …
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We compute the productivity gaps in manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in … productivity differentials across locations by decomposing them into firm differences within the same industry and by differences …-urban divide in manufacturing productivity still remains but there is a tendency of convergence between rural and urban location …
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