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Regional integration and firm location choices : a long run approach to the cork industry in the Iberian Peninsula
Parejo, Francisco; Branco, Amélia; Lopes, João Carlos; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561557
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Incentives or obstacles? : institutional aspects of the cork business in the Iberian Peninsula (1930 - 1975)
Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco M. - In: Revista de historia económica 26 (2008) 1, pp. 17-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799368
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Determinants of success and failure in the internationalisation of the cork business : a tale of two Iberian family firms
Lopes, João Carlos; Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco; … - 2014 - (Draft version)
companies acting in the cork business in Spain and Portugal: Mundet and Amorim&Irmãos. One of these companies - Mundet - has … been closed in the 1980s and the other - Amorim&Irmãos ? became, and is by now, the leading company in the cork worldwide … so both faced similar national and international constraints but in the end both became leading firms in the cork …
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The illusion of school choice : empirical evidence from Barcelona
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Güell, Maia - 2014
School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students' educational outcomes. Yet, the concern is that disadvantaged families are less able to exercise choice, which raises (3) equity concerns. The Boston mechanism (BM) is a procedure that is widely used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358779
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The illusion of school choice : empirical evidence from Barcelona
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Güell, Maia - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360059
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The illusion of school choice : empirical evidence from Barcelona
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Güell, Maia - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382108
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Can urban renewal policies reverse ethnic tipping points?
González Pampillon, Nicolas; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; … - 2015
Economist has traditionally been skeptical about the potential effects of place-based policies. Some authors (see, e.g., Overman and Nathan, 2013, and Kline and Moretti, 2014) argued that place-based policies are an imperfect solution to deal with social problems, for many reasons. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478179
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Can Urban Renewal Policies Reverse Neighborhood Ethnic Dynamics?
González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
This paper assesses the impact on neighborhood population dynamics of a major urban renewal policy implemented in Catalonia (Spain) between 2004 and 2010. Some of the most deprived neighborhoods in the region received large investments in their public spaces and facilities with the aim of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962852
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The Illusion of School Choice : Empirical Evidence from Barcelona
Calsamiglia, Caterina - 2014
School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students' educational outcomes. Yet, the concern is that disadvantaged families are less able to exercise choice, which raises (3) equity concerns. The Boston mechanism (BM) is a procedure that is widely used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053517
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Efecto barrio : segregación residencial, desigualdad social y políticas urbanas en las grandes ciudades
Nel·lo, Oriol (ed.) - 2021
El incremento de las desigualdades sociales está comportando un agravamiento de la segregación residencial. Así, los diversos grupos sociales tienden a separarse cada vez más en el espacio urbano en función de su capacidad de escoger lugar de residencia. La cuestión es relevante porque la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514831