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City of God redux : inequality, migration, and violent crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000
Freire, Tiago - 2015
There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some previous studies suggest that these results hold in the short term only. This could result from measurement error in income inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement...
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Are workers close to cities paid higher nonagricultural wages in rural China
Duvivier, Chloé; Li, Shi; Renard, Mary-Françoise - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 28/30, pp. 4308-4322
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Rural and urban migrants in India : 1983 - 2008
Hnatkovska, Viktoria; Lahiri, Amartya - In: 2014 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics …, (pp. 257-270). 2015
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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?
Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012
The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities experience a kind of resurgence in recent years others suffer from an ongoing depopulation. In this context an important issue refers to the question whether labour market...
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Approaching integrated urban-rural development in China : the changing institutional roles
Li, Yuheng; Hu, Zhichao; Liu, Yansui - 2014 - (Incomplete manuscript for 2014 ERSA conference)
measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban … level in China is assessed by the principal component analysis of selected variables which represent the socioeconomic … and IURD at provincial level in China in the period 1980-2010. The analysis also controls variables such as locational …
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New urban-rural interface : agricultural cooperatives for urban-rural interaction in China
Li, Yuheng - 2010
aim of this paper is to explore agricultural cooperatives acting as a new type of urban-rural interface in China. Through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575531
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Research on multi-interest conflict risk assessment of super-giant project based on PSR model
Huang, Dechun; Zhang, Rui; He, Zhengqi - In: Management for sustainable and inclusive development in …, (pp. 179-195). 2021
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Multilateral mechanism analysis of interprovincial migration flows in China
Pu, Yingxia; Ge, Ying; Han, Hongling; Kong, Fanhua - 2016
increasing population migration in China since the open door policy, this paper builds the spatial OD model of interprovincial …
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Urban-rural differences in level of various forms of trust in Hungary : paper presented to the 55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association : Lisbon, Portugal, 25-28...
Dusek, Tamás; Pálmai, Eva - 2015
This study examines the association between urban/rural residence and various forms of trust in Hungary, including control variables such as age, gender, income, marriage, qualification into the analysis. Trust is a basic dimension of human capital and a very often used concept in everyday...
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Commuting as a rural growth strategy? : evidence from Sweden
Lavesson, Niclas - 2014
The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which rural regions benefit from closeness to large cities. It is often argued that rural regions can enjoy urban-based growth through urban sprawl, i.e. deconcentration of urban activities to rural regions. Analyses of rural regions in e.g....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490081