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...

[eng] Defining rural areas? From a difficult conceptual definition to a necessary statistical delineation - Usual definitions of urban areas often oppose this category to urban areas. Rural areas are then defined by low population density, low part of built land areas and presence of...

This paper documents the increase in residential land prices in France over a twenty-five-years period. We estimate a land price function accounting for changes in urban size over time on a nation-wide sample. We take into account the concave relationship between lot price and lot surface and...

[fre] Cet article propose une analyse économique de la "renaissance rurale" française. Dans un premier temps, les flux de migrations, résidentielles ou professionnelles, sont analysés dans un cadre micro-économique. Puis on examine la régression de l'agriculture, le maintien de l'industrie...

L’accession à la propriété nécessite une accumulation préalable de capital. On peut penser que le profil de consommation au cours du cycle de vie influence les capacités d’épargne du ménage et ainsi s’interroger sur le rôle des statuts résidentiels passés sur l’accession à...

This paper aims to test for the influence of neighborhood deprivation on individual unemployment probability, in Lyon (France). We estimate a bivariate probit model of unemployment and location in a deprived neighborhood. Our identification strategy is twofold. First, we instrument neighborhood...

Economic theory points to two main mechanisms of residential income segregation : (i) the sorting according to distance to the center, resulting from a differenciated trade-off of households between accessibility to employment and housing prices and (ii) the sorting between municipalities,...