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the significance of jobs and amenities. With investigating cities' migration balances we choose a rather direct measure of … persistent disparities in labour market performance and amenities across cities and the high internal migration - in particular … migration rates. Local labour market conditions influence the mobility decision but amenities matter too. There is some …
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Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in real wages where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous...
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factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and …
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I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in...
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amenities. A planner uses affine tax functions to finance lump-sum transfers to all workers and unemployment benefits. The …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
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