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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values
Winters, John V. - 2012
, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous researchers typically have used some combination of rental payments … and homeowner housing values, but housing values are forward-looking and may not reflect current user costs. This paper … examines differences in quality of life estimates for U.S. metropolitan areas using, alternatively, rents and housing values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287640
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Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous researchers typically have used some combination of rental payments … and homeowner housing values, but housing values are forward-looking and may not reflect current user costs. This paper … examines differences in quality of life estimates for U.S. metropolitan areas using, alternatively, rents and housing values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695854
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Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values
Winters, John V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
involves several important issues, most important being how housing prices should be measured. Previous researchers typically … have used some combination of rental payments and homeowner housing values. This paper examines differences in quality of … life estimates for U.S. metropolitan areas using, alternatively, rents and housing values. We find that the two measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611586
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Immigration and the displacement of incumbent households
Adams, Zeno; Blickle, Kristian - 2018 - This version: February 2018
We make use of the universe of immigrants who arrived in Switzerland between 1992 and 2013, granular community level house price and wage data as well as detailed information on the Swiss population to study the effects of immigration on the location choice of incumbent households. Immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906399
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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists
Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper provides an introduction to the special issue of the Review of Economic Dynamics on "Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists''. The issue documents, for nine countries, the level and the evolution, over time and over the life cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509469
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Quality of Life in a Dynamic Spatial Model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, … - 2020
We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425673
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Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487165
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Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020
We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388100
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In-depth analysis of the situation of working street children in Moscow 2001
Mikkonen, Pirjo - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2001
Based on data from a survey of 1,500 street children, 81 employers from various industries and 95 experts from governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966323
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Working conditions of Pakistani migrant workers in the Middle East.
Farooq-i-Azam - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985
to 1983 and covering grievances with regard to breach of labour contracts, non-payment of wages, food and housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966419