BACKGROUND: The deprived physical environments present in slums are well-known to have adverse health effects on their residents. However, little is known about the health effects of the social environments in slums. Moreover, neighbourhood quantitative spatial analyses of the mental health...

The shape of immigrant local labor markets : the effects of social and spatial accessibility -- Mapping immigrant residence and work -- How local the immigrant labor market? -- Connecting neighborhood and home to ethnic labor market segregation -- Connecting neighborhood and home to black and...

This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g., a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...