This paper investigates the impact of individual heterogeneity and regional influences on unemployment duration utilising cross-section microeconomic data drawn from a representative random survey of individual job seekers for the English County of Kent. These individual-level data are unique in...

Social conformity can spread social norms and behaviors through a society. This research examines such a process geographically for conformity with the norm that good citizens should vote, which in turn affects voter turnout. A mathematical model for this process is developed, and predictions...

Various disciplines have produced models to explain and predict migration. A model is presented providing a taxonomy through which interdisciplinary insights can be synthesized. The imperfect information view emphasizes the role of wage differentials as representing arbitragible real utility...

This paper shows that there are benefits from the sharing of specialized capital because rental contracts are less costly than sole-ownership-use contracts when using specialized capital. We show that the benefits from the sharing of specialized capital come from the fact that a specialized...

If land is homogeneous and there are no increasing returns of any kind, what advantages do we get from living in cities? This paper shows that there are gains from the time-sharing or the renting of capital goods, especially the capital goods that we rarely use. And if our neighbors who rent the...

Public opinion surveys have become progressively incorporated into systems of official statistics. Surveys of the economic climate are usually qualitative because they collect opinions of businesspeople and/or experts about the long-term indicators described by a number of variables. In such...