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In 2001, the AZF plant exploded in Toulouse (France). The accident was unexpected, it strongly damaged local housing and benefited from a wide media coverage. It provides a rare opportunity to analyze the consequences of a shift in risk perception on housing markets and neighborhoods subject to...
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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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Current developed economies' growth becomes increasingly dependent on the performance of innovation and skill-intensive industries. Therefore, the ability of cities to attract skilled or highly-educated individuals becomes more and more important for their growth and economic development. In...
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dimensions. School grades of white students are lower in neighborhoods that have tipped, suggesting that families with kids that …
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To extend existing population growth models, this article proposes a theoretical setting including spatial interaction effects. Using data pertaining to 3659 Brazilian Minimum Comparable Areas (MCA) over the period 1970-2010, this extension is tested by estimating a dynamic spatial panel model....
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and services are totally open to trade with other regions without any frontiers or limitations. The openness of the … regions and their interaction with other regions are their main characteristics. From a statistical point of view internal … homogeneity and also heterogeneity between the regions are both desirable properties of a set of regions. The objective of this …
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the risks to which tobacco farming families are exposed and consequences on quality of life and health of workers in the … carried out through field research, through semi-structured interviews and participant observation with producer families of … literature on health of tobacco farmers, symptoms of green leaf disease were highlighted by most families, besides the exposure …
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Living conditions in the rural area are precarious in Romania, our country being at the bottom of the European ranking, and the situation is getting worse as the degree of isolation increases (mainly in the hilly and mountain areas) combined with the precariousness of livelihood resources in...
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households were around 62% of the average income per person in urban households. …
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housing services as fixed is able to do this. This is shown by means of a formal analysis of a model in which households that …
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