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Chapter 21. Cities in Developing Countries : Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lall, Somik V. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 1399-1455). 2015
, theoretical research on migration and city-size determination, theoretical and empirical work on tenure security and squatting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025294
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A theory of urban squatting and land-tenure formalization in developing countries
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Selod, Harris - 2008
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271850
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Rental Housing Spot Markets : How Online Information Exchanges Can Supplement Transacted-Rents Data
Boeing, Geoff - 2020
Traditional US rental housing data sources such as the American Community Survey and the American Housing Survey report on the transacted market — what existing renters pay each month. They do not explicitly tell us about the spot market — i.e., the asking rents that current homeseekers must...
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The Role of Housing Finance in Mexico's Vacancy Crisis
Monkkonen, Paavo - 2016
In the wake of the housing market crash in the United States in the late 2000s, images of abandoned homes on the urban periphery of American cities dominated international media coverage. This narrative of peri-urban over-extension was used by media documenting the housing crisis in Mexico,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994447
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A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753580
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Housing Search in the Age of Big Data : Smarter Cities or the Same Old Blind Spots?
Boeing, Geoff; Besbris, Max; Schachter, Ariela; Kuk, … - 2020
Housing scholars stress the importance of the information environment in shaping housing search behavior and outcomes. Rental listings have increasingly moved online over the past two decades and, in turn, online platforms like Craigslist are now central to the search process. Do these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101970
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A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries
Brueckner, Jan K.; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 2008
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094364
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What Determines Firms' Decisions to Formalize? Empirical Evidence from Rural Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil; Schulze, Günther G.; Voss, Janina - 2009
enterprises in six Indonesian districts and analyze in an IV approach the effect of formalization on tax payments, corruption …, access to credit and revenue. We take firm heterogeneity into account and show how the effect of formalization depends on … that make formalization more likely. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301461
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What determines firms' decisions to formalize? Evidence from rural Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil; Schulze, Günther G.; Voss, Janina - 2010
of them microenterprises, and analyze the effect of formalization on tax payments, corruption, access to credit and … revenue, taking into account the endogeneity of the formalization decision to such benefits and costs. We show, contrary to … most of the literature, that formalization reduces tax and corruption payments. The benefits of formalization, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330106
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What Determines Firms' Decisions to Formalize? - Empirical Evidence from Rural Indonesia
Schulze, Günther G.; McCulloch, Neil; Voss, Janina - 2010
enterprises in six Indonesian districts and analyze the effect of formalization on tax payments, corruption, access to credit and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276714