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Determinants of success and failure in the internationalisation of the cork business : a tale of two Iberian family firms

Lopes, João Carlos; Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco; … - 2014 - (Draft version)

companies acting in the cork business in Spain and Portugal: Mundet and Amorim&Irmãos. One of these companies - Mundet - has … been closed in the 1980s and the other - Amorim&Irmãos ? became, and is by now, the leading company in the cork worldwide … so both faced similar national and international constraints but in the end both became leading firms in the cork …

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The significance of neighborhood in Istanbul

Topçu, E. Ümran - 2011

The neighborhood is prominent in contemporary urban studies. One reason for choosing neighborhood as a unit of action is that the neighborhood provides an efficient scale within which to measure any change in target population's circumstances. Neighborhood here is defined as the bundle of...

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Why foreclosure highest in African American neighborhoods? : a case study of a middle size city

Gilderbloom, John Ingram; Ambrosius, Joshua; Squires, … - 2011

Foreclosures have become one of the most important urban problems faced by contemporary cities. Our goal is to better understand factors that affect foreclosure rates in a typical, mid-sized U.S. city. While previous research has found that a key explanatory variable positively affecting...

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...

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Distinctively different : a new approach to valuing architectural amenities

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Holman, Nancy - 2015

We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We...

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Neighborhood effect and labor market integration

Solignac, Matthieu; Tô, Maxime - 2013

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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Gentrification and displacement in English cities

Waights, Sevrin - 2014 - Version: January 2014

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) and the UK Census (waves 1991, 2001 and 2011) to examine the association between gentrification and displacement in English cities. Gentrification is the phenomena of a large and relatively sudden in-migration of wealthy or middle...

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Legitimization of urban regeneration in squatter housing areas through elements of poverty and crime in Turkey : Altindağ Çġnçġn Area and Sġncan Saraycik neighbourhood

Güzey, Özlem; Aksoy, Erman - 2014

While urban regeneration in Turkey emerges as an effective method of intervention in the transformation of urban space into areas of attraction for the global capital, intervention areas are defined as squatter housing areas where degradation process is visible, the population of which gradually...

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Your very private job agency : job referrals based on residential location networks

Hawranek, Franziska; Schanne, Norbert - 2014

Your very private job agency: Job referrals based on residential location networks This paper analyzes job referral effects that are based on residential location. We use georeferenced record data for the entire working population (liable to social security) and the corresponding establishments...

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Social interaction and the spatial concentration of criminality

Bernasco, Wim; Graaff, Thomas de; Rouwendal, Jan; … - 2012 - Draft verion

It has often been observed that there is substantial spatial variation in criminality, i.e. criminality clusters in neighborhoods. Differences in neighborhood characteristics are one possible reason, social interactions another. In this paper we use detailed data on the residential location of...

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