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Measuring the Stringency of Building Height Regulations

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel methodology to measure the stringency of building height regulations. This measure gauges the difference in building heights with and without regulations. The primary challenge is to recover unobserved building heights in the absence of regulations.
Yusuke Adachi
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Non‐Compliant Work and Employment in the United Kingdom? The Field of Research and Policy Limitations

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Official discourse suggests that 12% of Britain's workforce engages in precarious work where non‐compliance is concentrated. Research reported here suggests this provides a partial picture and that, in specific sectors, non‐compliant employers, organized crime groups and criminalized employment are ceded by the state, where many ...
Ian Clark   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neglected Conflicts Induce Negative Consequences on Displaced Persons and Host Families

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflict studies disproportionately focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, largely side‐lining host community and family dynamics in neglected conflict contexts. We use the sustainable livelihoods capital portfolios to compare changes among IDPs and host families (HFs) of the neglected Anglophone conflict in Cameroon ...
Roland Azibo Balgah (He/him)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What matters where: multi‐scalar citizen satisfaction in Brussels via cross‐group multicriteria satisfaction analysis

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding how citizen satisfaction varies within a fragmented metropolis requires more than a single pooled index. This paper develops a transferable cross‐group MUlticriteria Satisfaction Analysis (MUSA) framework that fits comparable preference‐disaggregation models for municipalities and socio‐geographically grouped municipalities ...
River Huang
wiley   +1 more source

The Social‐Ecological Model of Military Family Financial Well‐Being

open access: yesJournal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The social‐ecological model of military family financial well‐being was developed to delineate and depict individual‐, family‐, community‐, military‐ and societal‐level factors that jointly shape these families' financial well‐being. Theoretical frameworks that ground efforts to enhance families' financial well‐being remain underdeveloped but ...
Catherine W. O'Neal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

Portfolio Implications of Apartment Investing [PDF]

open access: yes
In this article, we examine the portfolio implications of apartment investing. In particular, we explore the sector’s relative stability, liquidity, and current market outlook.
Philip Conner   +3 more
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Longevity, Health, and Housing Risk Management in Retirement

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Annuities, long‐term care insurance, and reverse mortgages remain puzzlingly unpopular to manage post‐retirement longevity, health, and housing price risks. We use a flexible life‐cycle model structurally estimated with a unique stated‐preference survey experiment of Canadian households to understand why. Key factors include high risk aversion,
PIERRE‐CARL MICHAUD, PASCAL ST‐AMOUR
wiley   +1 more source

How Immigration Policy Shapes Family and Work Decision‐Making for Immigrant Women in Professional Occupations

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how US immigration policies shape family and work decision‐making among immigrant women employed in professional occupations who hold lawful immigration status. Background Research documents the family‐related consequences of immigration policies for undocumented, mixed‐status, and separated immigrant families ...
Kelsi L. Caywood
wiley   +1 more source

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