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The impact of public transport expansions on informality: the case of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region

Moreno-Monroy, Ana Isabel; Ramos, Frederico - 2015

system on local informality rates for the SPMR between 2000 and 2010. We compare the average changes in informality in areas … informality decreased on average 15 percent faster in areas receiving new public transport infrastructure compared to areas that …

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Money, Inflation, and Unemployment in the Presence of Informality

Ait Lahcen, Mohammed - 2018

This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where … informality when considering the inflation-unemployment trade-off in the conduct of monetary policy. …

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Regulation, Rents and "Iconic Design": rent acquisition by design in the tightly constrained London office market

Cheshire, Paul; Dericks, Gerard - 2013

A 2008 paper investigating the Regulatory Tax (RT) on office development in Britain (Cheshire & Hilber, 2008) provided evidence of very tight restrictions on office space going back at least 50 years. It was also argued that the RT measure tended to underestimate the full costs of restrictive...

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Neighborhood Effect and Labor Market Integration

To, Maxime; Solignac, Matthieu - 2014

The 2008 economic crisis raised concerns about unemployment, especially for youths. Over the last decade, two stylized facts can be observed in the French labor market about youth unemployment: its average rate remaining at high levels and its major spatial variations. This paper investigates...

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Labor Market Outcomes of Highly Educated Immigrants: Does Your Name Matter?

Xu, Dafeng - 2015

Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...

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Migration, allocation and reallocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyse immigrants? mobility, both geographically and in terms of transitions into and out of the regional labour markets in Norway, in order to uncover the extent to which the workings of local labour markets contribute to integration versus exclusion. For...

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Regional resilience to displacements: Explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers

Nyström, Kristina - 2015

Job displacement, which is defined as an involuntary loss of job due to economic downturns or structural changes, hit millions of workers each year. According to OECD (2013) 2-7 percent of workers are displaced every year. For Sweden, OECD (2013) reports an average displacement rate of about 2...

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Lockdown length and strength: labour-market effects in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2021

This paper evaluates the short-term labour market impact of the COVID-19 containment measures in Germany. It examines two dimensions of the first lockdown in Germany, namely the length and the strength of the lockdown. While the assessment of the length is conducted via variation across regions...

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Understanding the Role of the Public Employment Agency

Holzner, Christian; Watanabe, Makoto - 2018

The Public Employment Agency (PEA) provides intermediation services in the labor market. We investigate the implications of having such an additional market place using a tractable search model. The intermediation services enable registered firms to pay lower wages compared to the private...

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Suburbanization in Greece: The informal transformation of Maroussi into the economic hub of Athens

Chorianopoulos, Ioannis; Karvounis, Alexandros; Ballas, … - 2013

Greek cities are a seminal part of the Mediterranean urbanization thesis. Corresponding features include the comparatively belated occurrence of urban in-migration, the particularity of the urban pull factors, and the unplanned nature of urban expansion. The considerable and extensive...

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