This paper provides new stylized facts about labor earnings inequality and dynamics in France for the period 1991-2016. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that (i) labor inequality in France is low compared to other developed countries and has been decreasing until the financial crisis...

Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...

This paper investigates the differential impact of monetary policy on homeownership and housing returns among Black, Hispanic and White households. Using data on 13 million repeat sales from 1993 to 2020, we construct and analyze race-specific entries and exits of homeownership and housing...

The pace of urbanisation, the intensity of energy consumption, and the quality of environmental regulation level pose a severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental pollution through urbanisation and energy consumption...

The paper analysis rental contracts in a two-period model of thehousing market with uncertain 'outside option', accounting for non-contractible mobility-cost and consumption indivisibilities. The mainndings are: (i) Bilaterally ecient contracts set rents which are lessvolatile than market rents...

The California Statistical Abstract is a publication that provides a wide-range of statistics about California.

This study investigates the employment impact of investment subsidies in Germany. With 45 billion Euro for about 100,000 firms since the German reunification, these capital grants are the central element of regional policy for strengthening employment in economically weaker regions. The effects...

Wir stellen ein Maß für die Beziehung zwischen zwei Städten/Regionen basierend auf Suchanfragen vor, ausgehend von Merkmalen der Suchanfragen-Zeitreihen nach Zerlegung der Zeitreihe mittels STL (Komponentenzerlegung mittels lokaler linearer Kernregression). Grundlage für das Maß sind...

Big data technologies enable cities to develop towards a smart city. However, the adoption of big data technologies is challenging, which is why it is essential to identify factors that influence the adoption of big data technologies in cities. The main goal of the paper is to propose a...

Given their central role in economic decisionmaking at the firm-level, one might be inclined to assume that the role of Managers and of Management, would occupy a central place in the field of Economic Geography. In existing literature from the field, however, the ‘Manager’ remains a...