Does America face an affordable housing crisis and, if so, why? This paper argues that in much of America the price of housing is quite close to the marginal, physical costs of new construction. The price of housing is significantly higher than construction costs only in a limited number of...

Die politische Partizipation von Frauen in ländlichen Regionen ist in vielen europäischen Ländern deutlich niedriger als jene von Männern. Die Gründe für diese Unterrepräsentanz werden durch sozioökonomische und institutionelle Faktoren sowie durch die politische Kultur eines Landes...

Ziel des LEADER-Ansatzes ist es, die Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen in der Europäischen Union durch Einbeziehung der regionalen Ressourcen und der Bevölkerung zu stärken und die Lebensqualität zu erhöhen. Als Pilotaktion Anfang der 1990er Jahre konzipiert, avancierte LEADER zu einem...

The reason for choosing this theme is that the employers show a lack of interest in the workforce that has benefited from the educational process, a lack of interest which begun to intensify lately, educational process meaning formal education, namely that obtained in universities. The...

The article describes the basic features, requirements and conditions of increase of efficiency of work of the enterprises of the region and the economy of the Russian Federation at the initial stage of work under the world trade organization (WTO)

The article contains methodical regulations on determining the effectiveness of the work of passenger transport enterprises of the region or of the municipal formation on the basis of the calculation and forecast of the volume of transportations of passengers to ensure their level of break-even...

Our data show that land prices were more volatile than house prices during the recent boom/bust cycle. In areas where land was inexpensive in 2000, the land share of property value jumped during the boom, and this rise in the land share was a useful predictor of the subsequent crash in house...

We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...

The past decades have shown a remarkable growth in entrepreneurship among migrants. Recent studies on ethnic entrepreneurship have pointed at an increasing share of migrants in urban small- and medium-sized entrepreneurial businesses. These migrant activities are crucial to the urban economy in...

This paper focuses on residential sorting by social and ethnic status in large French urban areas. Our objective is to assess the relative importance of two major determinants of segregation stressed by the economic literature (Bartolome and Ross, 2003 ; Brueckner et al., 1999) : (i) “Alonso...