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Cities, home to more than half of the world's population and important economic hubs, are vulnerable to climate change … insights into climate change related risks, opportunities and adaptation actions based on responses by 40 European cities to … the 2014 CDP Cities Information Request. The analysis shows that 92.5% of the responding European cities report that they …
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wage differentials between large metropoles and small cities. …
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general … between the skills of workers. The nature of the complementarities determines the equilibrium skill distribution across cities …. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top …
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cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess … the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a sample of 308 Soviet cities to isolate the impact of closure regulations … and declining thereafter, there are also pervasive differences between controlled and uncontrolled cities, the later …
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cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and … growth, controlling for the usual types of forces used to explain the attractiveness of different cities. We find that even … Russian cities in the immediate pre-transition era. …
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The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of … investments supporting through this way cities development and firms competitiveness. The analysis uses primary data from 310 … the studied cities, but also for similar cities in the wider zone of Southern Europe. …
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largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher … the complementarity between skills and cities. …
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Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and … neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low … households. Urban policy often focusses on reducing segregation through physical measures in cities, such as demolishing houses …
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