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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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Race and neighborhoods in the 21st century : what does segregation mean today?

De la Roca, Jorge; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; O'Regan, … - In: Regional science & urban economics 47 (2014), pp. 138-151

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Regional distribution of discrimination forms in the labor market in Romania

Dobre, Mihaela Hrisanta; Dorel, Ailenei; Amalia, Cristescu - 2011

countries in EU. Although virulent discrimination does not occur on the Romanian labor market, this phenomenon may delay the … main forms of discrimination at the regional level based on the following indicators: the Duncan Index at local level; rate … discrimination by sex, nationality, and age; wage gap and occupational segregation by gender. They will also assess the effects of …

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Does residence in an ethnic community help immigrants in a recession?

Zhu, Pengyu; Liu, Cathy Yang; Painter, Gary - In: Regional science & urban economics 47 (2014), pp. 112-127

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Income, distance and spatial effects in the Monocentric model : the Barcelona Metropolitan Area case.

Madariaga, Rafa; Martori, Joan Carles; Oller, Ramon - 2011

This paper focuses on the income distribution of households in Barcelona Metropolitan Area. For this purpose we use the Monocentric model. As the basic model does not have direct implications for this distribution, we survey the extensions of the model that have been used in empirical...

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Immigrant population in Barcelona : residential characteristics and use of public space

Gutiérrez Valdivia, Blanca; Ciocoletto, Adriana; … - 2010

The arrival of numerous immigrant populations in the last decade is causing deep changes in the physical and social morphology of the Spanish cities. This population locates in specific areas of our cities and has distinct settlement patterns from those of the native population. Likewise, the...

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Housing and immigrant population in Barcelona

Gutiérrez Valdivia, Blanca; García Almirall, Pilar - 2011

Demographic change occurred in the last decade by the arrival of immigrant population has produced significant social and physical transformations in the Spanish cities. This article is part of a research on the residential and urban conditions of immigrant population in the Metropolitan Region...

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Detecting community structures based on neighborhood relations

Vathy-Fogarassy, Ágnes; Pigler, Csaba; Leitold, Dániel; … - In: Research in the decision sciences for global business : …, (pp. 201-218). 2015

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Childhood environment and gender gaps in adulthood

Chetty, Raj; Hendren, Nathaniel; Lin, Frina; … - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 282-288

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

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