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Describing Inequalities in Access to Employment and the Associated Geography of Wellbeing
Gibb, Kenneth; Osland, Liv; Pryce, Gwilym - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 3, pp. 596-613
This paper addresses three questions. How unequal is access to urban employment and the wellbeing associated with it? What is the monetary value consumers place on access? How does the inequality of access correspond to the geographical pattern of unemployment? A novel approach is developed...
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Do firms redline workers?
Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz Magdalena - In: Regional science & urban economics 83 (2020), pp. 1-14
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Do employers avoid hiring workers from poor neighborhoods? : experimental evidence from the real labor market
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 125 (2023) 2, pp. 376-402
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The local labour market effects of light rail transit
Tyndall, Justin - In: Journal of urban economics 124 (2021), pp. 1-18
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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices
Hunt, Evan - 2009
, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …
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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability
Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …
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Verteilungswirkungen anreizorientierter Sozialpolitik : das deutsche Rentenversicherungs- und Steuersystem in der Perspektive dynamischer Lebenszyklusmodelle
Grub, Martin - 2005
Drei große Reformenpakete und eine Reihe kleinerer Begleitmaßnahmen prägen das renten¬politische Erbe der rot-grünen Bundesregierung. Einerseits greifen sie Trends in der Reformpolitik seit Beginn der 90er Jahre auf. So verstärkt die Rentenstrukturreform 2001 beispielsweise die...
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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015
Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...
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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2006
Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2007
Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco's comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...
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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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