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This paper is motivated by the fact that, contrary to its importance in practice, the role of land for production has … and we show that, due to the factor proportions effect which emerges when land is used as a productive factor besides … the stylized facts, notably that wages are higher in larger locations, land-use for production and housing has to be taken …
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Massachusetts slowly shrunk by 90% for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990. While water supply decreased, land supply increased … outweighed the growth in land supply and other positive effects. A quantitative spatial model used to rationalize these results … allows us to study the aggregate and spatial effects of policies related to migration, land use, trade, roads, and cities. …
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supply and demand framework to estimate the full housing shortage in the United States. Using county-level data on land …
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future and which are traded and priced in a competitive market. We use a unique land lease-contract data set for Amsterdam …
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with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing …. -- capital formation ; house prices ; land distribution ; migration ; welfare …
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labor market in which workers? location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the … land and labor markets are solved for simultaneously. We then compare this decentralized equilibrium to a social planner … interaction between land and labor markets, and decompose the equilibrium unemployment rate into two parts: a pure non-spatial one …
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outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to … the US Federal government. Sales and leasing restrictions on the Agua Caliente land created a large transactions cost to …
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This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular …%, respectively. More family labor transferred from the farm to the non-farm sector after renting-out land. …
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We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal … residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction …, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways. Both tenure risk and asymmetric information cause the city extent and …
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class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The …-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal … and cross-sectional evidence suggest that the labor/land ratio affected the caste system's development, persistence, and …
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