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Shi, Tie; Zhu, Wenzhang; Fu, Shihe - 2021

The Rosen-Roback spatial equilibrium theory states that cross-city variations in wages and housing prices reflect urban residents’ willingness to pay for urban amenities or quality of life. This paper is the first to quantify and rank the quality of life in Chinese cities based on the...

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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations

Bayer, Patrick; Timmins, Christopher - 2003

interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or …

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A Note on the Equilibrium Properties of Locational Sorting Models

Bayer, Patrick; Timmins, Christopher - 2003

interactions. In particular, we prove uniqueness in the case of congestion effects and use a series of simulations to demonstrate … that a unique equilibrium is more likely to obtain (i) the smaller are any agglomeration effects, (ii) the larger are the …

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Not in My Back Yard: The Local Political Economy of Residential Land-Use Regulations

Dobbels, Gregory; Tavakalov, Suren - 2024

We provide evidence that local preferences for neighborhood characteristics play an important role in shaping the political economy of residential land-use regulations and their distributional consequences. We leverage a land-use regulation reform in Houston, TX that reduced the minimum lot...

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Human Capital, Higher Education Institutions, and Quality of Life

Winters, John V - 2011

This paper considers the effects of the local human capital level and the presence of higher education institutions on the quality of life in U.S. metropolitan areas. The local human capital level is measured by the share of adults with a college degree, and the relative importance of higher...

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The Great Recession and Nonmetropolitan America

Rickman, Dan S.; Guettabi, Mouhcine - 2013

The influence of the housing market bubble on U.S. business cycle dynamics during the previous decade has been well-documented. Yet, little if anything is known about how nonmetropolitan areas fared during the period. This study examines the association of regional housing market bubbles with...

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The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages

Liu, Sitian; Su, Yichen - 2022

We analyze the effect of working from home on the agglomeration economies of large cities and the aggregate … empirical evidence in our paper points to weakened agglomeration economies in large cities among professions with the highest … agglomeration effect in large cities is at least partially a result of reduced occurrence of interactive activities. …

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The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages

Liu, Sitian; Su, Yichen - 2022

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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations

Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2005

in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e.,simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475557

Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform

Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati - 2010

In this paper we propose a theoretical model where formal and informal sectors co-exist in tandem. Trade union segregates some labor from being formal. Capital is not allowed to freely move between formal and informal sectors. Using this sort of framework it has been shown that immigration of...

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