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Racial Enclaves and Density Zoning : The Institutionalized Segregation of Racial Minorities in the United States
Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2010
This paper attempts to explain two basic facts of segregation in the United States in recent decades. The segregation of blacks remains everywhere higher than the segregation of Latinos and Asians, but the levels are converging. Previous research stresses things like urban form and racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216538
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Sprawl in Canada and the United States
Lewyn, Michael - 2014
The purpose of this article is to show that, in Canada as in the United States, government regulation promotes sprawl through anti-density zoning, minimum parking requirements, and overly wide streets. However, Canadian cities are less "sprawling" than American cities- perhaps because at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167919
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Green Building Geography Across the United States : Does Governmental Incentives or Economic Growth Stimulate Construction?
Prum, Darren A.; Kobayashi, Tetsuo - 2014
As green building activity continues to rise across the country, some state governments decided to create incentives that would motivate developers to voluntarily pursue third party certification for their real estate projects in order to assist in meeting sustainability and environmental goals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157056
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New Insights into Rental Housing Markets Across the United States : Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings
Boeing, Geoff; Waddell, Paul - 2016
Current sources of data on rental housing – such as the census or commercial databases that focus on large apartment complexes – do not reflect recent market activity or the full scope of the U.S. rental market. To address this gap, we collected, cleaned, analyzed, mapped, and visualized 11...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127379
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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets
Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013
these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756108
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Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions
Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - 2013
workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228787
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The Size of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2021
U.S. metro areas--including metropolitan Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), Urbanized Areas, and Commuting Zones …--stray far from this conception. We develop a flexible algorithm that uses commuting flows among U.S. census tracts in 2000 to … commuting flows and excluding sparsely settled land, our Kernel-Based Metropolitan Areas (KBMAs) capture almost all of the …
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The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas
Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2014
We argue that anti-density zoning increases black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the quantity of affordable housing in white jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and land regulation indicators compiled by Pendall, we estimate a series of regression models to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751324
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Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
Ganong, Peter; Shoag, Daniel - 2018
The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decrease in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific real returns to living in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168902
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Spatial versus social mismatch : the strength of weak ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230715