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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?

Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)

market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they … identify the effect of acculturation on labor market outcomes of Chinese students with bachelor's degrees in Chinese colleges … market outcomes. …

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Cultural heritage and the location choice of Dutch households in a residential sorting model

Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2011

Local amenities are an important factor in the location choice of households. Heterogeneity in preferences of households tends to sort households over different locations which satisfy best their preferences given their constraints. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cultural heritage on...

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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain

Wedemeier, Jan - 2011

The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...

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Sorting based on amenities and income composition : evidence on the multiplier effect

Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2013

Recent research shows that urban heritage can be an important factor of residential location choice, and that especially highly educated households are attracted by the presence of cultural heritage. In this paper, we use a location choice model to investigate the attractiveness of neighborhood...

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Nikel and Kirkenes : twin city pair over the Polar Circle : outline for European Regional Science Association Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, 26-29 August 2014

Mikhailova, Ekaterina - 2014

The paper is devoted to the issue of twin-cities using this term in a narrow sense, with geographical proximity as an important criterion (as opposed to the broad sense of the twin-cities where the distance between cooperating cities doesn't matter). The paper is based on academic literature and...

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Urban resilience : store location dynamics and cultural heritage

Loon, Ruben van; Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2014 - Version: 26 February 2014

In this paper we study the relationship between cultural heritage and retail store dynamics at the neighbourhood level in the Netherlands. We analyze the total number of stores, number of vacant stores and number of stores by retail sub-industry in neighbourhoods, thereby focusing on the impact...

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Cultural diversity and cultural distance as choice determinants of migration destination

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This study analyses the impact of cultural composition on regional attractiveness from the perspective of migrant sorting behaviour. We use an attitudinal survey to quantify cultural distances between natives and immigrants in the area concerned, and estimate the migrants' varying preferences...

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Knowledge exchange in hybrid communities : a social capital-based approach. : evidence from Latvia

Sechi, Guido; Šķilters, Jurǵis; Borri, Dino; De … - 2012

The role of ICT accessibility in enhancing regional innovation through knowledge and information exchange is a recently popular and controversial topic in regional science. Opposing views exist, related to the bigger or lesser importance of geographical proximity in knowledge exchange in an age...

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Socio-cultural sphere : governance in new economy and impact on city branding

Pashkus, Vadim; Pashkus, Natalia; Bulina, Anna - 2014

associated strength of the brand on the market. The proposed method can be adapted to different segments of the public sector … used to calculate the integral market power of the brand. Priority of emotional components is defined by specific traits of … Russian market in general and the cultural market, in particular. The competitiveness of the regional institutions of socio …

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Acculturational homophily in friendships based on English-name usage : a natural experiment

Xu, Dafeng - 2015

This paper examines acculturational homophily in friendships of international students. Acculturation (also known as cultural assimilation) is measured by English-name usage. I use data from Renren.com, a Facebook-type social networking site based in China. The sample consists of students who...

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