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Investing in lagging regions is efficient : a local multipliers analysis of U.S. cities
Dijk, Jasper J. van - 2015
with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 … city with 3.7% unemployment the average local employment multiplier is 0.91 for current inhabitants and 0.60 for migrants …
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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility : the case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States
Bankston, Carl L., III.; Zhou, Min - 2018
policies, institutions (government, civil society, and ethnic), and patterns of social relations in the Vietnamese American …
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Urban Renewal and Inequality : Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions
Almagro, Milena; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...
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Using a High-Precision Flood Risk Assessment Tool to Understand Commercial Building and Market Impacts in the United States
Porter, Jeremy R. - 2022
Environmental changes are predicted to exacerbate changes in flood events, resulting in consequences for exposed systems. While the availability and quality of flood risk analyses are generally increasing, very little attention has been paid to flood impacts related to the commercial market....
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An econometric analysis of the demand surge effect
Döhrmann, David; Gürtler, Marc; Hibbeln, Martin - 2013
In case of a natural catastrophe there is an increased demand for skilled labor and materials which in turn leads to significant price increases that should be taken into account in the forecast of catastrophe losses. Such price effects are referred to as "Demand Surge" effects. The paper at...
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Socioeconomic Factors influencing the Spatial Spread of COVID-19 in the United States
Baum, Christopher F.; Henry, Miguel - 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed in the U.S., “hotspots” have been shifting geographically over time to suburban and rural counties showing a high prevalence of the disease. We analyze daily U.S. county-level variations in COVID-19 confirmed case counts to evaluate the spatial...
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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017
Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...
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Urban interactions
Kim, Jung Sung; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2017
This paper studies social-tie formation when individuals care about the geographical location of other individuals. In our model, the intensity of social interactions can be chosen at the same time as friends. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social...
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Spatial sorting : why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010
We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in higher house prices, this does not necessarily...
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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...
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