We present a model that focuses on the links between location and educational choices in South African cities. Be comparing the Apartheid city and the post-Apartheid city, we show that the inequality in South Africa between blacks and whites decreases when Apartheid laws are removed.

We present a model that focuses on the links between location and educational choices in South African cities. By comparing the Apartheid city (in which both chooling and land use are restricted on the basis of race) and the post-Apartheid city (in which there no such restrictions), we show that...

This paper focuses on the role of social interactions in the location decision of workers and on the consequences of this decision on labor market outcomes. More precisely, there are three categories of workers: whites, the ethnic minority workers who try to abide as much as they can by the...

This paper starts with a review of the economic literature stressing how problems of residential segregation and physical access to jobs can exacerbate urban unemployment.We also present some descriptive statistics on residential segregation and disconnection from jobs in the Paris region using...

This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters ``squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...

We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007-2008 boom in agricultural commodity prices and study determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. Using data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate...

Depuis près de trois décennies, un des objectifs de la politique de la ville est de faire baisser le chômage dans les banlieues défavorisées des agglomérations françaises (par exemple avec la création en 1997 de Zones franches urbaines proposant des incitations fiscales à l'implantation...

Comment expliquer l'existence de poches de chômage élevé au sein des villes ? La théorie économique identifie deux explications concurrentes : les effets néfastes sur le marché du travail associés à la ségrégation résidentielle, et l'éloignement de ces zones aux lieux d'emplois. Le...