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Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016

Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative...

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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies

Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022

Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...

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Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings : comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales

Knies, Gundi; Melo, Patricia C.; Zhang, Min - 2020

We investigate the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on individual subjective and objective wellbeing for England and … neighbourhood-specific confounding effects. Our findings suggest that the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on life satisfaction … and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that …

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The well-being of Russian cities : does location matter?

Ivanova, Vera - 2015 - Preliminary draft, to be completed

Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2016

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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014

Correlations between the earnings of siblings reflect shared family and community background, but evidence is mixed on the relative magnitudes of these influences. We estimate long run earnings correlations between brothers, school mates and teenage neighbors jointly in a unified framework....

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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish neighbors using population register data for Denmark. We exploit differences in the timing of family...

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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination

Agan, Amanda Y. - 2020

Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...

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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination

Agan, Amanda; Starr, Sonja B. - 2022

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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination

Agan, Amanda Y.; Starr, Sonja B. - 2020

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