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The regional economic effects of military base realignments and closures in Germany
Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Vance, Colin; Vorell, Matthias - 2010 - Draft
, unemployment, and crime rates within a specified buffer zone around each base. The analysis covers 129 communities for the period … indication of how quickly a local economy can adjust to an exogenous reduction in demand. The data on crime were obtained from … the Criminal Statistics of the German Police. Other socioeconomic variables are drawn from the federal and state …
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Local labor markets and crimes by non-residents
Filiztekin, Alpay - 2013
Research that investigate the extent of labor market prospects on crime rates focus on conditions in a region and crime … labor market in a region may attract nonresidents, either professional criminals who travel only to commit crime or … individuals who migrate hoping to find a job and failing to do so may inclined to commit crime. Indeed, using regional data from …
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The cost of fear of crime on apartment prices : ERSA Congress, Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy, 19th - 23rd August 2010, Jönköping, Sw...
Ceccato, Vania; Wilhemson, Mats - 2010 - Preliminary and incomplete draft
Evidence shows that crime affects housing prices. However, whether fear of crime impacts equally on prices of …
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Reducing fear of crime for sustaining cities : a case study from Turkey
Deniz, Deniz - 2011
In urban areas, fear of crime constitutes as much a problem as crime itself. Fear of crime is often associated with …. The fear of crime and feelings of insecurity keeps people off the public places where crime or anti-social behaviour are … the city. It is obvious that, level of the fear of crime is unequally distributed considering the varied user profiles and …
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Violence and avoidance behavior : the case of the Mexican Drug War
Miyar, José Roberto Balmori de la - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 25 (2019) 4, pp. 1-7
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Agglomeration and exports with heterogeneous firms : evidence from Chinese firm-level and county-level data
Sun, Churen; Yu, Zhihao; Zhang, Tao - 2012 - Version July 1, 2012, preliminary
The paper proposes a model to investigate the influences of agglomeration on heterogeneous firms' exporting behaviors. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial...
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Is there a county border effect in spatial income differences in Hungary? : paper presented to the 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, Bratislava, Slovakia,...
Dusek, Tamás; Szalka, Éva - 2012
The economic and social importance of administrative borders can be examined from the point of view of internal homogeneity and external heterogeneity of the delimited spatial units and from the point of view of the effect on the intensity of spatial interactions. This paper deals with the first...
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The territorial cooperation policy of EU with third Mediterranean Countries : 53rd ERSA Congress, Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy 27-31 August...
Kotios, Angelos; Saratsis, Yiannis - 2013
During the programming period 2007-2013 the Cohesion Policy of EU was adopted and is also implemented the policy of territorial co-operation with third countries. In this framework, the EU co-finances (through the European Regional Development Fund, the pre-accession instrument and the...
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Climate and happiness in the tropics
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Siyaranamual, Martin D.; Ghina, … - 2016
Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from developing countries exist. Moreover, even though climate is among the most important input to human activities, only a handfull of studies explicitly associate it with...
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Education - basic pillar of the sustainable rural development : evolutions and gaps in the South-Muntenia region
Bucur, Sorinel Ionel - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 288-292). 2020
The sustainable development of an economy, either viewed as a whole or at the local level, is based on at least two essential pillars, namely the stock of human resources and the educational system. If the demographic system is the backbone of development, education plays an important role at...
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