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Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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How Does Immigration Affect Housing Costs in Switzerland?
Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2023
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labour markets ("Mobilité Spatiale" regions) and 26 cantons, respectively. We propose two empirical strategies that...
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Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?
Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run effects of increases in metropolitan statistical area-level employment and total labor income on...
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The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg
Kjellander, Josef; Nilsson, Viktor; van Vuuren, Aico - 2018
We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, we look at the price development in the year after the announcement. We...
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Do employment subsidies work? Evidence from regionally targeted subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - 2008
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces. Our findings suggest...
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The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jessen, Jonas; Kluve, Jochen - 2019
interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and … security contributions, and interventions that enforce labor or business formalization. In this paper, we compile a database of … 157 impact estimates from 32 academic studies that evaluate empirically one or more of these formalization interventions …
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Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand
Hensel, Lukas; Tekleselassie, Tsegay; Witte, Marc - 2021
Firms often use social networks to find workers, limiting the pool of potential applicants. We conduct a field experiment subsidizing firms' formal vacancy posting. The subsidies increase non-network employee search and shift vacancies towards high-skilled positions. Post-treatment, firms...
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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces. Our findings suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763859
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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties
Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - 2015
This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531666
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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties
Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264781