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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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A comparison of grading models for neighborhood level of family housing units

Mert, Zeynep Gamze; Yilmaz, Serhat; Mert, Ertan - 2011

More recently Turkey has witnessed fast housing development and real estate sector growth because of the mortgage preparations. With this development, property location quality has been considered important for selecting and paying them. This study uses a data set of new single family housing...

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Can urban renewal policies reverse ethnic tipping points?

González Pampillon, Nicolas; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; … - 2015

Economist has traditionally been skeptical about the potential effects of place-based policies. Some authors (see, e.g., Overman and Nathan, 2013, and Kline and Moretti, 2014) argued that place-based policies are an imperfect solution to deal with social problems, for many reasons. First,...

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Ageing by feet? : regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities : presented at ERSA 2015 (Lisbon)

Neumann, Uwe - 2015 - Preliminary draft

In the literature on the economics of demographic change so far the regional and neighbourhood-level consequences were out of the main focus. Yet, regional migration accentuates diversity in the progress of ageing. In fact, while households are known to "vote with their feet" when they choose a...

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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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