This paper sorts out the poverty reduction mechanism of the "insurance+futures" pattern and uses actual data from the top 10 provinces in China with the highest underwriting value in the "insurance+futures" pattern since 2016 to test it by a panel data model. The results show that the...

Wie sich die Platzbedarfe in Kitas und Schulen entwickeln, hängt vorwiegend von der demografischen Ausgangslage in den Regionen ab. Diese wird wiederum maßgeblich vom Verlauf der Geburtenzahlen bestimmt. Hier unterscheiden sich die ehemaligen beiden deutschen Staaten auch mehr als drei...

Housing rents are one of the most important and difficult elements of spatial cost of living comparisons. Difficulties arise from the lack of sufficiently detailed and harmonized data, especially at the international level. The emergence of Airbnb has created a valuable new source of...

Does labour-saving technological change pose a threat to European employment, and if so, to what extent? This study investigates the degree of employment exposure to labour-saving technological change across NUTS-2 regions in Europe. We construct a cross-walked metric between the SOC and ISCO...

This paper identifies and analyzes the trends and patterns in consumption differences between Eastern and Western European households from 2000 to 2021. Using clustering methods and regression analysis, it examines consumer spending patterns and convergence processes, focusing on how household...

In recent decades, developed economies have experienced a strong concentration of economic activity around their main metropolises, generating economic and social fractures between these prosperous areas and the rest of the country. Several contributions in the literature on the 'geography of...