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Cultural heritage and the location choice of Dutch households in a residential sorting model
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2011
Local amenities are an important factor in the location choice of households. Heterogeneity in preferences of households tends to sort households over different locations which satisfy best their preferences given their constraints. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cultural heritage on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543251
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Adult mortality in Russian rural areas : inter-regional comparisons
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana - 2011
mortality among the population. The task of decreasing the mortality among the rural population, especially overcoming the …-gional programs for social-economic development for the nearest future. In view of this, the task of this research is to develop … taxonomy of regions of RF according to the structure of mortality among their rural population, analyze the inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544696
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Acculturational homophily in friendships based on English-name usage : a natural experiment
Xu, Dafeng - 2015
This paper examines acculturational homophily in friendships of international students. Acculturation (also known as cultural assimilation) is measured by English-name usage. I use data from Renren.com, a Facebook-type social networking site based in China. The sample consists of students who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479064
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Migration, allocation and re-allocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015
the general population in and out of jobs in the same local labor markets through the same period. We also investigate … the labor market status achieved by those who relocate compared with corresponding groups in the population that does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481701
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485175
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Sorting based on amenities and income composition : evidence on the multiplier effect
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2013
Recent research shows that urban heritage can be an important factor of residential location choice, and that especially highly educated households are attracted by the presence of cultural heritage. In this paper, we use a location choice model to investigate the attractiveness of neighborhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553821
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Rural mortality from external causes in Russian regions
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana; Rusanovskiy, Victor - 2014
The paper addresses the factors that affect the reduction of rural mortality from external causes in the regions of RF of different types and contains an estimation of the degree of their impact. We made a quantitative analysis and built models of the factors and determinants of the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492596
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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth
Noseleit, Florian - 2011
The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in … relationship between structural change induced by entrepreneurial activity and economic development. The empirical findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548154
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The knowledge economy and the economic crisis in Germany : regional development, structural change and labor market regions : working paper for the ERSA congress 2015
Bentlage, Michael; Dorner, Matthias; Thierstein, Alain - 2015
budgets, etcetera. These changes result in uneven spatial development, concentration in polycentric large-scale urban regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478347
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Urban microclusters and tourism governance in Salvador/BA
Spinola, Carolina de Andrade; Silva, Jorge Antônio Santos - 2015
applied in setting up a governance and development model for the activity in the city of Salvador, Bahia. Third leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481720