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We study how labeling of neighborhoods affects the performance and sorting of young residents at the junction of enrolling in high school. Exploiting the release of a much publicized official situation report on carefully delineated troubled neighborhoods in Sweden we estimate the effect of this...
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Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
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, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
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in tax revenue from the out-ow of migration. …
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of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are … not made observably worse off and neighborhood change is driven primarily by changes to in-migration. At the same time … increase the opportunity benefits we find, reduce out-migration pressure, and promote long-term affordability …
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We develop a dynamic stochastic equilibrium model of two locations within a city where heterogeneous households make joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations, we compare the response of this model economy to a...
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Little is known about the individual location behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
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This paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …
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prisoner's dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of swapping individuals between heterogeneous groups of constant … size after a random allocation fills the haystacks, but prior to mating. Migration is characterized by two parameters: an … exogenous participation-in-migration cost (of search, coordination, movement, and arrangement-making) which measures the …
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The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....
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