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The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the … regime. The skill composition of these migrants shows a strong positive selection. The gap in population has remained …
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The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the … regime. The gap in population has remained remarkably sharp in space and is growing. …
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parts of the territory, is under productive population and switching work flows and study, is about the setting and trend of … contribute to the development of strategies to support the formulation and implementation of urban, regional policy and …
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the age structure of their population. We apply these concepts to the case of the states of Brazil, for which we have …
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This paper analyzes the effects of localized labor demand shocks in the tradable sector, such as the establishment of a large tradable firm in a municipality, over nontradable formal and informal jobs in the case of Mexico. Results indicate that locations that experienced this shock have between...
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plants on city-level population and its composition in Canada. We find that manufacturing plant closures and downsizing lead … to a decline in subsequent population growth, especially among the young, those of working age, migrants, and the less … negative local labor demand shocks affect population dynamics. Public services (health and education) and cultural and …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on U.S. central city growth and distress during the second half of the twentieth century.It finds that city growth tended to be higher in metropolitan areas with favorable weather, higher growth, and greater human capital, while distress was...
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Residential satisfaction depends on housing and neighborhood conditions in addition to housing cost affordability. To determine the relative importance of these factors, their average effect is usually estimated using sample data, eventually split in sub-samples in order to represent social...
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Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...
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We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...
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