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This study examines the role of recreational amenities, both within the county as well in neighboring counties, on employment growth using data from 618 counties in the U.S. midwest. Using a wide range of amenity variables and spatial econometric methods, we find that natural and recreational...
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This study of recent rural (nonmetropolitan) migration in the U.S. finds that, consistent with research on landscape … relatively little cropland. A simultaneous equation model of 1990-2000 change in jobs and net migration indicates that landscape … features influenced migration directly, not through effects on employment. An inordinate rise in housing values in the most …
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Benefit-cost analysts attempt to compare two states of the world, the status quo and a state in which a policy having benefits and costs is being contemplated. For environmental policies, this comparison is greatly complicated by the difficulty in inferring the values that individuals place on...
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Rents are shown here to be more appropriately interpreted as a composite amenity, a "benefit of living" rather than a "cost of living." This is seen in a model in which migrants with rising average incomes move to higher rent locations other things equal, rather than the lower rent locations...
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India has a very diverse geography and many aspects of this geographical landscape are tied to its economy. Natural disasters are quite commonplace in some areas and thus the significance of disaster management policy becomes extremely crucial. This research study aimed to analyse policy...
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of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are … not made observably worse off and neighborhood change is driven primarily by changes to in-migration. At the same time … increase the opportunity benefits we find, reduce out-migration pressure, and promote long-term affordability …
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investigates economic and regulatory implications of land withdrawal in Italy and the nexus with internal and external migration …. The dualistic character of Italian economic development induced, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, huge migration flows … recent times, in the light of increasing pressures from globalization, a revival of internal migration flows from the South …
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Urban sprawl has been criticized for its disproportionate impact on the environment. Yet urban areas are in fact less land-intensive than recent rural development patterns. Residential first-movers into such virgin areas may spark waves of ensuing development without incorporating the true...
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respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …
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economic activities and migration. Section 2 introduces a simple matching theory model based on previous studies. This theory …. Results show that once migration and a population drain occur, such fiscal policies might deteriorate the regional economy …
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