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Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2012

This paper explores the relationship between residential proximity of individuals from the same ethnic group and the probability of finding a job through social networks, relative to other search methods. Using individual-level data from the UK Labour Force survey and spatial statistics...

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Robust small area estimation under spatial non-stationarity

Baldermann, Claudia; Salvati, Nicola; Schmid, Timo - 2016

Geographically weighted small area methods have been studied in literature for small area estimation. Although these approaches are useful for the estimation of small area means efficiently under strict parametric assumptions, they can be very sensitive to outliers in the data. In this paper, we...

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Examining the vintage effect in hedonic pricing using spatially varying coefficients models: A case study of single-family houses in the Canton of Zurich

Dambon, Jakob A.; Fahrländer, Stefan Sebastian; … - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14

This article examines the spatially varying effect of age on single-family house (SFH) prices. Age has been shown to be a key driver for house depreciation and is usually associated with a negative price effect. In practice, however, there exist deviations from this behavior which are referred...

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Using spatial modeling to address covariate measurement error

Schennach, Susanne M.; Starck, Vincent - 2020

We propose a new estimation methodology to address the presence of covariate measurement error by exploiting the availability of spatial data. The approach uses neighboring observations as repeated measurements, after suitably controlling for the random distance between the observations in a way...

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Regional economics in Greece: A spatial analysis of business and population dynamics

Manika, Stella; Anastasiou, Evgenia - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 13 (2020) 2, pp. 70-82

Purpose: The economic crisis has led to a series of transformations of the economic and population base of the contemporary spatial units. The present study aims to highlight the indirect impact of the economic crisis on the operation and spatial footprint of the business network in a region...

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Zoning and spatial analysis of poverty in urban areas (case study: Sabzevar City-Iran)

Zandi, Rahman; Zanganeh, Mehdi; Akbari, Ebrahim - In: Journal of Urban Management 8 (2019) 3, pp. 342-354

-developmental research design to zone the 18 neighborhoods of Sabzevar City in terms of urban poverty indicators. Data collection was done … neighborhoods of Sabzevar City. A total of 17 urban poverty indicators were surveyed in the form of three sociocultural, economic … access to urban services indicators depict that the highest urban poverty is in neighborhoods 17 and 18, 6, 14, 15, 13, 12 …

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Optimal Tourism Development

Campos-Soria, Juan A. (contributor) - 2020

The early days of tourism development had a näive vision of tourism's impacts on society in terms of economic, social, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons...

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Spatial statistics with S-Plus: Available libraries and functions

Krahnke, Tillmann - 1999

An overview is given over the S-Plus libraries and modules for statistical analysis of spatial data that are currently available at the Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund. It is believed that this includes all libraries currently available on the internet. Listings of functions...

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Spatial econometrics

Paelinck, Jean H. P.; Paelinck, Jean Henri Paul; … - 1979

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Proximate causes of forest degradation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo vary in space and time

Shapiro, Aurélie C.; Bernhard, Katie P.; Zenobi, Stefano; … - In: Frontiers in Conservation Science 2 (2021)

Forest degradation, generally defined as a reduction in the delivery of forest ecosystem services, can have long-term impacts on biodiversity, climate, and local livelihoods. The quantification of forest degradation, its dynamics and proximate causes can help prompt early action to mitigate...

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