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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Greenery of former manor sites in the context of urban development
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2006 Problems on the role of greenery of former manors in the urban structure are discussed in the paper. Importance of integrating manor greenery into an urban environment is analyzed.
Jurga Vitkuvienė
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Urban spatial structure and suburbanisation. The case of the Barcelona Metropolitan [PDF]
The metropolitan spatial structure displays various patterns, sometimes monocentricity and sometimes multicentricity, which seems much more complicated than the exponential density function used in classic works such as Clark (1961), Muth (1969) or Mills
Ana Galindo +2 more
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele +1 more
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The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure [PDF]
The geographic concentration of economic activity occurs because transport costs for goods, people and ideas give individuals and organisations incentives to locate close to each other. Historically, all of these costs have been falling.
Kurt Schmidheiny +3 more
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Behavioral Coping With Food Price Inflation: Patterns Among U.S. Households
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent food price inflation has placed substantial pressure on household budgets, food security, and mental well‐being. Using Household Pulse Survey data, we combine k‐modes clustering and Double Machine Learning to identify distinct household coping groups and examine differences in how households respond to rising food prices across groups ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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Structure engineering and public image
, 2012 Lazaro, C.; Domingo Cabo, A. (2012). Structure engineering and public image. SUR: Sustainable Urban Regeneration. 14(3):18-21.
Lazaro, Carlos, Domingo Cabo, Alberto
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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Prediction of Response of Existing Building Piles to Adjacent Deep Excavation in Soft Clay
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2019 This study investigates building settlements near excavations in soft clay. A simplified theoretical method is proposed to predict the additional settlements and axial forces of excavation-adjacent existing building floating piles in soft clay.
Yao-Ying Liang +4 more
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