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How does a change in risk perception affect the housing market? : evidence from an industrial accident in France
Bléhaut, Marianne - 2014 - Preliminary version
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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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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Location choices of highly educated foreign workers : the importance of urban amenities
Levkovich, Or; Rouwendal, Jan - 2014 - This version: June 29th 2014
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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On the dynamics of segregation
Dahlberg, Matz; Fredriksson, Peter; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi - 2011 - Work in progress.
dimensions. School grades of white students are lower in neighborhoods that have tipped, suggesting that families with kids that …
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Economic regions based on the agglomeration economics : an evaluation for the Spanish case. : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, New Challeng...
Rubiera Morollón, Fernando; Viñuela, Ana - 2011
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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A spatial economic model and spatial econometric analysis of population dynamics in Brazilian MCAs
Silva, Diego Firmino Costa da; Elhorst, J. Paul; … - 2015
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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Tobacco grower families : an institutional analysis of their quality of life and health
Glasenapp, Sirlei; Silva, Leonardo Xavier da; Peiter, … - 2015
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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Is there discriminatory mortgage pricing against immigrants in the Spanish lending market?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Raya, Josep Maria - 2011
In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage market exists. More specifically, we test whether, ceteris paribus, immigrant borrowers tend to be charged with higher interest rates on their mortgages than their Spanish born...
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Is there a bubble in the Chinese housing market?
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2011
is taken into account. These findings might reflect a limited exposure of private households expenditures to housing …
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The impact of objective and subjective measures of air quality and noise on house prices : a multilevel approach for downtown Madrid
Chasco Yrigoyen, Coro; Le Gallo, Julie - 2011 - Draft version
Air quality is one of the major concerns in big cities. It is therefore of interest to evaluate properly air pollution. Specifically, this paper aims at measuring how air quality is incorporated in transaction prices in downtown Madrid. For that purpose, we use multilevel models since our sample...
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