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Urban poverty in Vietnam: determinants and policy implications
Nguyen, Cuong; Linh, Vu; Nguyen, Thang - In: International Journal of Development Issues 12 (2013) 2, pp. 110-139
Purpose – The objective of the paper is to examine the profile and determinants of urban poverty in the two largest … cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. The paper also investigates the dynamic aspect of urban poverty in Vietnam. Design …/methodology/approach – The authors use regression and data from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey to examine the determinants of poverty in Vietnam …
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NGOs and the making of “development tourism destinations”
Becklake, Sarah - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 6 (2014) 2, pp. 223-242
/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014624372
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Short-run effects of hurricanes on the housing markets: evidence from Florida
Dogan, Can; Hattapoglu, Mustafa; Hoxha, Indrit - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 16 (2022) 4, pp. 672-692
Purpose Many studies have shown that the intensity and the number of hurricanes are likely to increase. This paper aims to look at the immediate effects of hurricanes on the time on the market, share of houses sold and percentage of houses with price cuts in the housing market using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014777903
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Spatial Implications of Minimum Wages
Buettner, Thiess; Ebertz, Alexander - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 2-3, pp. 292-312
poverty might increase as a result of the introduction of a minimum wage.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609263
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Urban poverty, inequality and industry in Nigeria
Mustapha, Alhaji Bukar; Said, Rusmawati; Sidique, … - In: International Journal of Development Issues 14 (2015) 3, pp. 249-263
urban poverty reduction Design/methodology/approach – The paper used static panel data analysis. However, the tests suggest … – The findings of the paper suggest that the industrial sector growth exert no significance on urban poverty while the urban … wholesale and retail services growth is found to be substantially strong in reducing urban poverty. The results also indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014768943
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Verzerrungen von Konsumentenpreisindices und ihr Einfluss auf das „reale“ Wirtschaftswachstum – dargestellt am Beispiel der USA / Biases in Consumer Price Indices and Their Impact...
Hartwig, Jochen; Schips, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 4, pp. 394-412
. Es erweist sich, dass die Divergenz in den Wachstumsraten der USA und der EU seit 1997 fast zur Gänze auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609054
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Comparing Wealth Effects: The Stock Market versus the Housing Market
Case, Karl E.; Quigley, John M.; Shiller, Robert J. - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 5 (2005) 1
Abstract We examine the link between increases in housing wealth, financial wealth, and consumer spending. We rely upon a panel of 14 countries observed annually for various periods during the past 25 years and a panel of U.S. states observed quarterly during the 1980s and 1990s. We impute the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014588476
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Strategic sequencing behavior among owner-occupiers
Kallåk Anundsen, André; Røed Larsen, Erling - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 7 (2014) 3, pp. 295-306
Purpose – This article aims to study the dual search problem using data on the Norwegian housing market during the financial crisis of 2008 and begin the detailed mapping of the elements in the transmission mechanism from policy to the housing market. Moving owner occupiers face a simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014862703
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Residential property prices’ modeling: evidence from selected European countries
Boitan, Iustina Alina - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 9 (2016) 3, pp. 273-285
Purpose The purpose of this study is to contribute to the relatively narrow existing residential real estate literature by developing and validating several univariate forecasting models, to reliably anticipate future house price dynamics across several European Union (EU) countries....
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The impact of crimes on house prices in LA County
de La Paz, Paloma Taltavull; Berry, Jim; McIlhatton, David - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 15 (2022) 1, pp. 88-111
Purpose This paper focusses on analysing the impact of crime on the housing market in Los Angeles (LA) County. By looking at different types of crime instead of general crime measures and controlling by spatial dimension of prices and crime as well as endogeneity, a model is developed that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014862725