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Forming of the new ethnic image of Saint Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton I.; Zhitin, Dmitriy V. - 2015

Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...

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Regional distribution of discrimination forms in the labor market in Romania

Dobre, Mihaela Hrisanta; Dorel, Ailenei; Amalia, Cristescu - 2011

countries in EU. Although virulent discrimination does not occur on the Romanian labor market, this phenomenon may delay the … main forms of discrimination at the regional level based on the following indicators: the Duncan Index at local level; rate … discrimination by sex, nationality, and age; wage gap and occupational segregation by gender. They will also assess the effects of …

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Race and subprime loan pricing

Ghent, Andra C.; Hernández-Murillo, Rubén; Owyang, … - 2011 - First draft: February 2011, preliminary

In this paper we investigate whether race and ethnicity influenced subprime loan pricing during 2005, the peak of the subprime mortgage expansion. We combine loan-level data on the performance of non-prime securitized mortgages with individual- and neighborhood-level data on racial and ethnic...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

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The regional distribution of unemployment : a microeconomic perspective

López-Bazo, Enrique; Motellón, Elisabet - 2011 - (Preliminary version)

Regional disparities in unemployment rates are large and persistent, particularly in some economies such as Spain. Previous contributions to the literature have provided evidence on their magnitude and evolution, as well as on the role of some economic, demographic and environmental factors in...

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Overeducation at the start of the career : stepping stone or trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 123-140

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The role of destination spatial spillovers and technological intensity in the location of manufacturing and services' firms

Artal Tur, Andrés; Navarro-Azorín, José Miguel; … - 2011

Focusing on the characteristics of destinations, this paper pursues to identify the role of spatial spillovers in driving location choices of manufacturing and services' firms. With this objective a spatial conditional logit framework is defined, allowing for neighbourhood-related spatial...

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Euclidean distance versus travel time in business location : a probabilistic mixture of hurdle-Poisson models : 55th ERSA Congress 2015, Lisbon

Buczkowska, Sabina; Coulombel, Nicolas; De Lapparent, … - 2015

While the question of the specification of spatial weight matrix is now largely discussed in the spatial econometrics literature, the definition of distance has attracted less attention. The choice of the distance measure is often glossed over, with the ultimate use of the Euclidean distance....

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Measuring lost recreational benefits in Fukushima due to harmful rumors using a Poisson-inverse Gaussian regression

Nohara, Katsuhito; Narukawa, Masaki - 2015

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake hereafter, 'the Earthquake' and the accident involving radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Company fs Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 hereafter, 'NPP No. 1' brought fame to Fukushima Prefecture but not in a positive way. In general, economic damage...

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Distance deterrence effect and intergenerational similarity in the field-of-study choices of Finnish university students

Suhonen, Tuomo - 2012

Numerous studies have found that school proximity and parents' educational background affect individuals' educational attainment, while less evidence has been presented on the role of these factors in the choice of university field of study. Especially, in a geographically vast and scarcely...

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