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Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 4, Page 865-879, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Construction booms have dominated Albania's economy and politics since the late 1990s. These booms continued even during times of illiquidity. One of the sources of financing construction in Albania is the practice of klering (in‐kind payments).
Smoki Musaraj
wiley   +1 more source

Agglomeration effects and unemployment to work: Evidence from French data

open access: yesPapers in Regional Science, Volume 102, Issue 1, Page 129-166, February 2023., 2023
Abstract In this work, we explore the role of agglomeration economies on unemployment‐to‐work transition rates in French employment areas. Mobilizing administrative exhaustive data files from individuals registered at the employment agency, we estimate local transition rates that are independent of differences in local characteristics of job seekers ...
Emmanuel Duguet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
wiley   +1 more source

House price valuation of environmental amenities: An application of GIS‐derived data

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 939-959, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Hedonic house price models are frequently used to improve our understanding of local housing markets. In recent years, rich registers containing details about home‐qualities and neighbourhood characteristics have successfully been coupled with spatial qualities such as job‐accessibility or distances to transport.
Liv Osland, John Östh, Viggo Nordvik
wiley   +1 more source

Soluciones relacionadas con el entorno alimentario para prevenir la obesidad infantil en América Latina y en la población latina que vive en Estados Unidos

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen El entorno alimentario es un factor importante que contribuye a las dietas poco saludables en la niñez y, por tanto, a las crecientes tasas de obesidad. Los países de Latinoamérica han recibido el reconocimiento internacional por su liderazgo en la implementación de políticas dirigidas a distintos aspectos del entorno alimentario.
Ana Clara Duran   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age cohort effects on unemployment in the USA: Evidence from the regional level

open access: yesPapers in Regional Science, Volume 100, Issue 4, Page 1025-1053, August 2021., 2021
Abstract Since the early 1970s, it was argued that shifts from relatively smaller to larger youth cohorts in the labor force raise the unemployment rate. In contrast, using US state‐level data, two studies come to a contrary conclusion. I provide a theoretical framework for local labor markets that considers age cohort differences in labor market ...
Carsten Ochsen
wiley   +1 more source

Migración de retiro y nuevos mercados de consumo. El caso de San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México

open access: yesRevista Cimexus, 2018
La migracion de retiro a la ciudad de San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, representa oportunidades de negocios para los productores de la ciudad. El objetivo de este articulo es examinar a los migrantes, en edad de pre-vejez y vejez, residentes
Ángela Victoria
semanticscholar   +1 more source

El comercio de aves silvestres en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán, México

open access: yesEcosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios, 2018
El comercio de aves silvestres es una actividad que se practica desde tiempos prehispánicos y que persiste en la actualidad. Se ha sugerido que esta actividad es causa de disminución de poblaciones locales de algunas especies.
Linda Rosana González Herrera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Derrames de la inversión extranjera directa y su efecto en las exportaciones: una aplicación empírica en un país emergente

open access: yesEl Trimestre Económico, 2021
Este trabajo investiga, por primera vez en el caso colombiano, los efectos indirectos de los derrames de la inversión extranjera directa (IED) sobre las exportaciones de las empresas nacionales.
Ramón Javier Mesa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

US Foreign Policy and the Gulf States: Changing Dynamics in a Multipolar World

open access: yesWorld Affairs, Volume 188, Issue 4, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on US foreign policy toward the Gulf from Obama's Pivot to Asia to the initial period of the second Trump administration. It situates the role of the US within the broader context of the global energy transition and the Gulf states as geopolitical actors in a multipolar world order.
Steven Wright
wiley   +1 more source

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