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Trajectories for the Immigrant Second Generation in New York City
Mollenkopf, John - University of the State of New York <Albany, NY> - 2005
It has become a truism to say that immigration hastransformed American society since 1965. Beginning with“gateway” cities like New York and Los Angeles, the effect ofnew immigrants now extends to small pork- or chickenprocessingtowns in Iowa or North Carolina. Indeed, theMarch 2004 annual...
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Immigration, Health, and New York City: Early Results Based on the U.S. New Immigrant Cohort of 2003
Jasso, Guillermina; Massey, Douglas S.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - New York University / Department of Economics; … - 2005
[...]Immigrants settle in one point within the vast U.S.geography. Classically, there are four great reception areas:the two coasts, Chicago, and the southern border. New YorkCity was the gateway for the great migrations of the turn ofthe twentieth century, and it remains a major destination...
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Public Education in the Dynamic City: Lessons from New York City
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna - New York University / Department of Economics - 2005
[...]Nonetheless, not all the news is bad. As we describe in detail,our work on New York City’s public schools—which includesextensive research on immigrant children—and our separate work on school reform offer several reasons for optimism.First, immigrant students, who might be viewed as...
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The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability
Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research <New York, NY> / …; … - 2003
[...]In this paper, after first surveying housing costs in theUnited States, we examine why the expensive places have suchhigh housing costs. High-cost places generally have either veryattractive local amenities (great weather or good schools) orstrong labor markets. The Rosen (1979) and Roback...
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The Impacts of New Neighborhoods on Poor Families: Evaluating thePolicy Implications of the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration
Goering, John - City University <New York, NY> - 2003
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s(HUD) Moving to Opportunity for Fair HousingDemonstration, or MTO …
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ACCESS Magazine Spring 2003
Cervero, Robert; Gottlieb, Robert; Hall, Peter V.; … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2003
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Research universities and regional high-tech firm start-ups and exit
Silva, Dakshina G. De; McComb, Robert P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
If localized knowledge spillovers are present in the university setting, higher rates of both start-ups and/or survival than in the broader economy would be observed in areas that are geographically proximate to the university. Using a fully-disclosed Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for...
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Factors Affecting Fluid Milk Sales in Urban Markets
Stelly, Randall; Nichols, John P. - Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC), Department … - 1971
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Evaluation of the potential of friction surface analysis in modelling hurricane wind damage in an urban environment
Knight, Robin; Khalid, Fakhar - In: Natural Hazards 76 (2015) 2, pp. 891-911
This research considered the use of friction surface analysis as a means of modelling the vulnerability of an urban … after Hurricane Wilma in 2005. These results represent a simplistic GIS approximation of the phenomena in a specific urban … environment, which do not take into account more complex factors linked to urban ‘roughness’ and turbulence effects. To model …
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On the Fringe: Family-Friendly Benefits and the Rural–Urban Gap Among Working Women
Glauber, Rebecca; Young, Justin - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 36 (2015) 1, pp. 97-113
This study drew on longitudinal, nationally representative data to estimate rural–urban inequality in women’s access to … family-friendly benefits. Multivariate fixed effects regression models showed that compared to urban women, rural women … % lower for paid sick time, 21 % lower for vacation time, and 20 % lower for health insurance. The rural–urban gap in sick …
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