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Neighborhood dynamics and the distribution of opportunity

Aliprantis, Dionissi; Carroll, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2012

This paper uses an overlapping-generations dynamic general equilibrium model of residential sorting and intergenerational human capital accumulation to investigate effects of neighborhood externalities. In the model, households choose where to live and how much to invest toward the production of...

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The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 and 2011 censuses

Krugell, Waldo - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

This article examines the spatial distribution of people and wealth in South Africa over the period 1911 to 2011. Economic development is typically characterised by agglomeration, but Apartheid policies tried to separate people and disperse economic activity. Zipfâ€™s Law is used to examine...

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Demographic changes of rural population in Slovakia

Podolak, Peter - European Rural Development Network - ERDN - 2005

The absolute and relative decline of the rural population numbers is one of the most evident features of demographic … the rural population in the country. The here presented evaluation of demographic changes of rural population in Slovakia …

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The Autochtonous Investments and the Business Environment

ANGHELACHE, Constantin; SACALA, Cristina - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 62 (2014) 10, pp. 83-86

The importance of the national, autochtonous capital, cannot be underestimated, as maintaining over a long period a mixed structure of the economy, by the coexistence of the private sector in the process of getting established, exclusively represented by small and medium companies, with a state...

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Population Incomes

BALTAC, Andreea Gabriela; BARDASU, Georgeta LIXANDRU - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 62 (2014) 10, pp. 110-118

In Romania 56.8 percent of households are to be found in cities and municipalities and 43.2 percent for the rural areas. Occupational status of household head has a particularly importance and a strong impact over the size and structure of revenue, expenditure and household consumption, as well...

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Migrations, transferts et développement : le Mexique comme point de comparaison

Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

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Socio-economic characteristics of highly commercial family farms (changes in 2000-2005)

Karwat-Woźniak, Bożena - Instytut Ekonomiki Rolnictwa i Gospodarki … - 2008

The economic characteristics of highly commercial farms. The socio-demographic structure of the population living on …

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The Statistical Modeling of the Trends Concerning the Romanian Population

OPAIT, Gabriela - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2014) 2, pp. 109-119

This paper reflects the statistical modeling concerning the resident population in Romania, respectively the total of … the romanian population, through by means of the „Least Squares Method”. Any country it develops by increasing of the … population, respectively of the workforce, which is a factor of influence for the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (G …

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Impact of Population on Environment in Madurai District

T., MAHESWARI - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

that rapid population growth in the developing world represented a serious global crisis. One of the primary causes of … environmental degradation in a country could be attributed to rapid growth of population, which adversely affects the natural … resources and environment. This study, in general, makes an endeavor to demonstrate how the population growth in Madurai …

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Workforce skills across the urban-rural hierarchy

Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M.; Stolarick, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

This paper examines differences in the skill content of work throughout the United States, ranging from densely populated city centers to isolated and sparsely populated rural areas. To do so, we classify detailed geographic areas into categories along the entire urban-rural hierarchy. An...

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