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Non-linearity of location factors : Client ERSA European Regional Studies Association Congress, August 21.-25.2012, Bratislava
Hauser, Christoph; Baumeler, Myriam; Egli, Hannes - 2012
-average human capital does not add as much anymore. Accessibility by public transport is associated with both a critical mass effect … and a saturation effect. This means that accessibility should neither be a bottleneck nor luxurious. Results like these …
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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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Location choices of multinational companies in Ukraine
Zvirgzde, Daria; Schiller, Daniel; Revilla Diez, Javier - 2013
This paper explains the location choices of multinational companies (MNCs) in a transition economy by traditional economic factors and institutional quality. Based on a thorough theoretical framework and a set of hypotheses, empirical data of an enterprise survey of 153 foreign firms in three...
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What determines the relocation tendency of manufacturing firms? : 50th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International 19-23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden
Alkay, Elif - 2010
Firms locate in different areas for different reasons. However, some of them tend to move a new place in order to achieve alternative goals. For instance, the manufacturing survey in 2005 reflects that 30 per cent of the manufacturing firms in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area would like to...
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Residential location choice of knowledge-workers in a "startup metropolis" : the role of amenities, workplace and lifestyle
Benedit, Edward; Frenkel, Amnon; Kaplan, Sigal - 2011
Knowledge-workers belonging to the super-creative core of the creative-class are considered a mean to induce economic growth and to sharpen the regional competitive edge. Driven by the key-role of housing in attracting and retaining knowledge-workers, most studies focus on the residential choice...
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Business location: strategic factor for the development of regions? : an approach on industrial location policy of Bahia
Spinola, Noelio Dantaslé; Spinola, Carolina de Andrade; … - 2015
In this paper we present a critical analysis of industrial location policy of the state of Bahia, in the period covered in between 1960s and 2000s, from the perspective of spatial economy. The paper reviews the formulation of the theory of location, through the contributions of its principal...
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The location behavior of call center firms in Turkey : 51th Congress of the European Regional Science Association "New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalis...
Seçkin, Ebru - 2011
Advances in information and communication technologies bring along changes in working and employment conditions. Automationed work is moved to distant areas and businesses get elaborate, far from the center and network-based. Another change similar to the disintegration of production process is...
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An overview of accessibility measures
Silva, Mateus Araújo e; Kawamoto, Eiji - 2010
This paper presents a review of accessibility measures in transportation studies by addressing its conceptual framework …, data requirements, and applications. Depending on the theoretical basis, the accessibility measures are classified, in …, interpretability, and data requirements are used to evaluate these measures. Recent progress in accessibility studies point towards the …
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Parent's education, school-age children, and household location in American cities
Sander, William; Testa, William A. - 2013
The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...
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The value of proximity to water in residential areas
Rouwendal, Jan; Marwijk, Ramona van; Levkovich, Or - 2014
Proximity to water is appreciated by households. Hedonic analyses that try to measure the value of this amenity are potentially biased by omitted variables as locations close to the water may be selected by households with higher incomes who construct more luxury houses. Since it is difficult to...
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