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There are about forty lakh scheduled caste people in Kerala. Most of them are poor and daily wage workers. The socio-economic backwardness of scheduled caste people is a historically determined outcome of a caste system in India. Education is the only way for them to get out of this historical...
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This paper replicates Costa and Kahn's analysis of locational choices of couples of highly educated persons for the Netherlands. We find increasing concentration of such power couples in the urbanized western part of the country. This trend occurs in spite of the absence of an urban wage premium...
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joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of … newcomers. Second, homeownership adds to the volatility of the housing market. Third, homeownership may amplify the dispersion …
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joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of … newcomers. Second, homeownership adds to the volatility of the housing market. Third, homeownership may amplify the dispersion …
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The study examined the relationships between residents’ socioeconomic characteristics and the housing quality standard in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Systematic sampling technique was used to select 198 household heads for questionnaire administration. The findings revealed that socioeconomic factors...
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Residential choice does not only depend on properties of the dwelling, neighborhood amenities and affordability, but is also affected by the population composition within a neighbourhood. All these attributes are capitalised in the house price. Empirically, it is not easy to disentangle the...
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