2024-03-28T14:11:23Z
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/cgi/oai2
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1740
2019-09-30T04:21:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1740/
Corporate Policy in Mexico During the Porfirian Age. The Telephone Companies, 1881-1905
Víctor, Cuchí Espada
N76 - Latin America ; Caribbean
N96 - Latin America ; Caribbean
R59 - Other
In Mexico City, in the heyday of the Porfirio Díaz’s regime (1877-1911), a telephone system was developed by a private carrier, whose parent company was American Bell Telephone Company, which grew into a privately owned monopoly that served a clientele made up mostly of businessmen and government institutions. This essay tries to explain the company’s corporate policies to grow and profit in this incipient market, as well of the municipal council to regulate its operations till 1903, when its administrative powers were taken away by the federal government.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1740/1/MPRA_paper_1740.pdf
Víctor, Cuchí Espada (2005): Corporate Policy in Mexico During the Porfirian Age. The Telephone Companies, 1881-1905.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7217
2019-09-28T22:33:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7217/
Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: the Italian Case
Vittorio, Daniele
Ugo, Marani
R30 - General
F23 - Multinational Firms ; International Business
R59 - Other
The paper estimates the effects of organized crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces in the period 2004-06. The presence of organized crime at a provincial level is quantified through several indicators, based on data for different kinds of crimes: extortion; association for criminal purposes, including mafia (Art. 416 and 416 bis of the Italian Penal Code); attacks; arson. Several control variables are used, included a proxy for (financial) investment incentives provided by public sectors. Estimation suggests that FDI inflows are influenced by different variables. Our results show that the extent of extortion and the number of persons denounced for "criminal association" are significantly and negatively correlated with FDI inflows. Finally, our analysis suggests the presence of organized crime is a strong disincentive for foreign investors, particularly in the less developed Italian provinces.
2008-02-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7217/1/MPRA_paper_7217.pdf
Vittorio, Daniele and Ugo, Marani (2008): Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: the Italian Case.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10142
2019-09-28T21:47:14Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10142/
SOCIOECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL & POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: A SUBNATIONAL STUDY OF INDIA, 1993 – 2002
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya
R59 - Other
P59 - Other
We conduct an econometric analysis of socioeconomic, institutional and political factors determining government respect for human rights within India. Using time series cross-sectional data for 28 Indian states for the period 1993 – 2002, we find that internal threat poised by number of social violence events, presence of civil war and riot hit disturbed areas are strongly associated with human rights abuses. Amongst socioeconomic factors, ‘exclusive’ economic growth, ‘uneven’ development, poor social development spending, youth bulges and differential growth rates between minority religious groups explain the likelihood of human rights violations. Capturing power at the state and central level by Hindu national parties’ viz., Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena, further help understand the incidence of human rights violations within India.
2008-08-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10142/1/MPRA_paper_10142.pdf
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya (2008): SOCIOECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL & POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: A SUBNATIONAL STUDY OF INDIA, 1993 – 2002.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16547
2019-09-26T08:50:24Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16547/
Organized crime and regional development. A review of the Italian case
Vittorio, Daniele
K49 - Other
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
R59 - Other
This paper offers a review of the effects of organized crime on regional economic development, with particular reference to the case of Italy. After reviewing the empirical studies that analyse the relationship between crime and economic development, the paper examines the regional distribution and the social costs of some crimes (in particular extortion) that can be linked to mafia type criminality.
2009-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16547/1/MPRA_paper_16547.pdf
Vittorio, Daniele (2009): Organized crime and regional development. A review of the Italian case.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23011
2019-09-27T16:42:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23011/
Cities in Germany and their climate commitments: More hype than substance?
Sippel, Maike
Q38 - Government Policy
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
Q28 - Government Policy
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
R59 - Other
While nation states debate climate policy at an international scale, on a local level, cities across the globe have committed to emission targets and mitigation activities. This study analyses the actual performance of municipal climate action against their targets. Official information material from large cities in Germany was collected and complemented with questionnaires from officials in 40 municipalities.
While 77% of cities have adopted emission targets in a voluntary act, and 80% of these cities are engaged in at least basic emission reporting, only a quarter of them are on course to reach their targets. All of these ‘successful’ cities are situated in Eastern Germany – and their emission reductions can mainly be explained by the industrial decline in the 1990s after the German Reunification. Not a single city in Western Germany is on course to reach its reduction commitment. Cities average mitigation performance is slightly worse than the German average, and the effect of city networks on cities is not very clear. It can be concluded that cities are currently not living up to their ambitions. The practice of urban emission reporting does in many cases not allow for proper quality management of greenhouse gas policies.
For a more meaningful contribution to the battle against climate change, cities could follow a double strategy: Firstly they could report emissions regularly and adopt realistic and city-specific targets and action plans based on their emission patterns. Secondly, they could complement their targets with a visionary approach: This would include pilot projects that demonstrate how low carbon cities could look like, as well as a more ambitious target which they would be able to reach – provided that optimal framework conditions for local mitigation activities would be put in place by other policy levels.
2010-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23011/1/MPRA_paper_23011.pdf
Sippel, Maike (2010): Cities in Germany and their climate commitments: More hype than substance?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46605
2019-09-26T21:28:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46605/
Current State and Issues of Logistics Cost Accounting and Management in Malaysia
Zakariah, Sahidah
Pyeman, Jaafar
G0 - General
R4 - Transportation Economics
R59 - Other
Background: Logistics cost is an important factor affecting the competitiveness on both macro (national) and micro level (firms). Logistics cost indicates the performance of logistics industry, efficiency level and its competitiveness.
Research Problem: Despite of its significance, current state of logistics cost accounting and management in Malaysia has not properly addressed and the issues surround logistics cost measurement remains incoherent.
Aim of research: The purpose of this study is to give an overview of the current state and issues of logistics cost accounting and management in Malaysia.
Research Method: This study used content analysis as a qualitative research tool, and supported by literature material with regards the concerned research tool.
Findings: This study has found the importance of having standard logistics cost accounting measurement, which plays a vital role in determining the accuracy of the logistics cost and ascertain the efficiency level of logistics industry in Malaysia.
Implication: This study leads to trigger the awareness of current state and issues of logistics cost accounting and management in Malaysia.
2013-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46605/1/MPRA_paper_46605.pdf
Zakariah, Sahidah and Pyeman, Jaafar (2013): Current State and Issues of Logistics Cost Accounting and Management in Malaysia.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46968
2019-09-28T22:45:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46968/
From city marketing to museum marketing and opposed
Metaxas, Theodore
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R59 - Other
European cities today need to confront the challenges of the current socio economic changes. In this framework the role of city marketing becomes essential especially during the socio economic crisis. City marketing is important because it is related to procedures connected with city global competition, tourist attraction, urban management, urban government and the special identity of cities (city branding). Many European cities take initiatives either creative or innovative to improve their competitiveness through cultural and tourism development/growth. Further, the majority of applied city marketing policies concern the culture and tourism. City marketing have encounter criticism like a)replace urban planning, b) emphasis on profit, c) emphasis on tourism attraction, d) regenerate socio geographical inequalities. In Greece only recently city marketing has been developed while even more new phenomenon is the process of field studies.
The first case study is the Pilot Strategic Planning of City Marketing in Nea Ionia Magnisia which is part of the CultMark programme “Cultural heritage, local identity and place marketing for sustainable development” (contacted under INTERREG IIIc in five European locations during 2004-2006 (Nea Ionia, Magnisia (leader partner), UK, Kainou/Finland, Rostok-TLM/Germany and Pafos/Cyprus.
Museums are one of the top/main categories of cultural locations which contribute to the cultural and tourism development of cities. Cities benefit from the existence of museums in specific ways but in order to work effectively it is necessary to be promoted in an organized way and with a strategic perspective which will be implemented by a Strategic Pilot Marketing Plan.
A second case study is the unique Museum of Tobacco in Kavala, Greece. The scope of it is to show how the museum could contribute as a unique “tourism and cultural good/product to reinforce the city image and its development under a Strategic Marketing Plan for the city with main axe the Museum. This paper uses data from recent primary field studies contacted on enterprises, citizens of the city and visitors in order to form a strategic frame in which the (intrinsic) promotion of the Museum will work effectively on the general development of the Museum and the city of Kavala.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46968/1/MPRA_paper_46968.pdf
Metaxas, Theodore (2013): From city marketing to museum marketing and opposed.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48118
2019-09-26T10:47:27Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48118/
Branding Stockholm
Paschou, Eleni
Metaxas, Theodore
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R59 - Other
City branding is a relatively new topic gaining extreme interest and a promising and practical field of marketing. Due to global competition, even more regions and cities around the world, are seeking solutions in place branding’s methods and practices, which now consists a main urban development tool. Having a significant amount of information, the study will focus on the city of Stockholm. Being capital of Sweden and city with strong economic and political background, the case study will focus on the factors which contribute to an attractive external image. Studying its economic structure, business environment, educational system, how residents and foreigners see and respect the city, as well as the existing city branding methods, we will try to identify the way in which city will be attractive in tourists, investors and residents, as well as whether the city manages to fulfill its objectives about Vision 2030, targeting on a “World-Class city”.
2013-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48118/1/MPRA_paper_48118.pdf
Paschou, Eleni and Metaxas, Theodore (2013): Branding Stockholm.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48353
2019-09-26T17:09:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48353/
Marketing European cities in the new internationalized environment: The course of Prague after 1989
Metaxas, Theodore
R50 - General
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R59 - Other
The aim of the article is to show the significance of Place Marketing in the development and competitiveness of European cities. The present study focuses on and points out the strategic process of Place marketing, in one of the most representative examples of its successful implementation, which is the city of Prague. Prague, which in only 16 years, after 1989, managed to increase its competitiveness becoming one of the most attractive investment and culture destinations on international level. More specifically, the article presents the course of Prague after 1989, awarding the profile of the city as a top competitive investment and cultural destination in the European hierarchical urban system.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48353/1/MPRA_paper_48353.pdf
Metaxas, Theodore (2009): Marketing European cities in the new internationalized environment: The course of Prague after 1989.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49827
2019-09-27T16:25:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49827/
Interstate Migration and the Tiebout Hypothesis: An Analysis According to Race, Sex, and Age
Cebula, Richard
H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H49 - Other
J18 - Public Policy
J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers
R59 - Other
This article empirically examines the impact on interstate net migration of differential state and local property tax and transfer policies in the United States by race, age and sex for the period 1965-70. The results offer considerable support to the Tiebout hypothesis that the consumer-voter moves to that area which best satisfies his preferences for public goods.
1973-11-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49827/1/MPRA_paper_49827.pdf
Cebula, Richard (1973): Interstate Migration and the Tiebout Hypothesis: An Analysis According to Race, Sex, and Age. Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association , Vol. 69, No. 348 (22 December 1974): pp. 876-879.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:50065
2019-10-01T08:07:06Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50065/
Some Determinants of Interstate Migration of Blacks, 1965-1970
Cebula, Richard
Kohn, Robert
Vedder, Richard
H31 - Household
J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
R59 - Other
The results of this study for the 50 states imply that considerations of distance play an important role in the migration decision of blacks, with the distance variable being statistically significant at the five percent level or better in 80 percent of the cases. The racial composition variable was statistically significant at the one percent level in 97 percent of the cases. This would seem to imply, as hypothesized in Section II above, that black migrants tend to move to those areas where the ratio of blacks to total population is higher, ceteris paribus. The income variable was statistically significant at the five per cent level or better in only 25 percent of the cases and at the ten percent level or better in only 49 percent of the cases. This apparent insensitivity of migration to income has been found in other studies and has been shown to be entirely compatible with the conventional wage rat e analysis. Finally, we turn to the welfare variable. This is a variable is ignored in migration studies to date, but this may be an important oversight. In particular, analysis shows that the welfare variable was statistically significant at the five per cent level or better in 48 percent of the 50 cases. Thus, we infer that welfare-as one specific form of income-may be a very important determinant of black migration and perhaps may be more important than even per capita personal black income in influencing the migration decision of blacks
1972-11-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50065/1/MPRA_paper_50065.pdf
Cebula, Richard and Kohn, Robert and Vedder, Richard (1972): Some Determinants of Interstate Migration of Blacks, 1965-1970. Published in: Western Economic Journal , Vol. 11, No. 4 (20 December 1973): pp. 500-505.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:58836
2019-10-11T04:34:05Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/58836/
Privatization Policies by National and Regional Governments
Martínez-Sánchez, Francisco
H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L32 - Public Enterprises ; Public-Private Enterprises
L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out
R59 - Other
In order to analyze the privatization policies undertaken by the national and regional governments, we consider a horizontal differentiation model with price competition in which a country consists of two regions of different sizes. We show that public-sector intervention by either the national or regional government is essential for achieving the social optimum, because a private duopoly does not achieve the social optimum. However, not all public interventions in firms are better than the private duopoly. On the other hand, the preferences of consumers and firms about privatization policy are completely opposite. Finally, the privatization policies of regional governments are completely opposite from one region to the other, and do not coincide with that of the national government. Overall, this paper shows that the relative size of regions is an important feature in the design of the privatization policies implemented by national and regional governments.
2014-09-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/58836/1/MPRA_paper_58836.pdf
Martínez-Sánchez, Francisco (2014): Privatization Policies by National and Regional Governments.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:61286
2019-10-12T04:34:34Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61286/
Performance assessment method of urban waste management systems from Neamț County, Romania
Mihai, Florin-Constantin
I19 - Other
Q50 - General
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R59 - Other
This paper proposes a performance assessment method (PAM) at urban scale, based on five specific waste indicators such as: population access to waste collection services (%),separate collection (%), reuse & recycle (%), landfilling (%) and amounts of waste uncollected (Qwu-%). Values of each indicator are correlated to an assessment table for three different years (2004, 2007, 2010) highlighting the disparities between urban localities from Neamt County. The paper also examines the changes and dysfunctions of urban waste management systems between pre-accession vs post-accession period. PAM should be a necessary tool for environmental authorities or decision-makers for monitoring process of municipal solid waste systems from various cities on regional scale particularly for new EU
members.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61286/1/14PAMOUWMSFNCR27052013159166.pdf
Mihai, Florin-Constantin (2013): Performance assessment method of urban waste management systems from Neamț County, Romania. Published in: Present Environment and Sustainable Development , Vol. 7, No. 1 (2013): pp. 160-167.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:61363
2019-09-26T23:22:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61363/
Regional Disparities in Urban Population Access to Sanitation Services. Case Study: Romania
Mihai, Florin-Constantin
Lamasanu, Andreea
Apostol, Liviu
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q58 - Government Policy
R00 - General
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
R59 - Other
Sanitation services still not fully cover the urban population and this leads to different types of pollution and affects the urban landscape. This paper aims a geographical approach by highlighting territorial disparities in the Romanian counties regarding the urban
population access to waste collection services and to examine the environmental issues. Statistical database processed by ascending hierarchical cluster analysis are mapped at the level of Romanian counties achieving a spatial-temporal analysis for the period 2003-2008. The paper also discuss about the current dysfunctions existing in urban waste management from Romania. Development of waste management facilities are in the process of transition from a traditional system based only on landfilling towards an integrated waste
management system which develops the recycling and recovery of waste generated. Romania as an EU member country must improve the quality of sanitation services. Each city must provide the full collection of municipal waste generated in order to eliminate the illegal
dumping.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61363/1/MPRA_paper_61363.pdf
Mihai, Florin-Constantin and Lamasanu, Andreea and Apostol, Liviu (2012): Regional Disparities in Urban Population Access to Sanitation Services. Case Study: Romania. Published in: Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Special issue , Vol. 3, No. 6 (2012): pp. 281-287.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:67600
2019-09-28T17:12:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67600/
Too much EMU? An investigation of technology gaps.
Kounetas, Kostas
Napolitano, Oreste
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
D29 - Other
R59 - Other
Although European Single Market (ESM) has been widely perceived as a model for regional integration, there continues to be considerable debate about the impact of this integration on the EU regions. Studies in this field have mainly investigated the convergence-divergence issue, while the effect of ESM on regional performance has attracted few empirical studies. The non-parametric metafrontier framework used in this study, as a first stage of analysis, is exploited to account for the heterogeneity between the Italian regions in the whole period and in two distinct time periods before and after EMU implementation. In a second stage, using a partial least squares model, the technology gaps estimated for each period have been regressed, investigating possible factors that may have affected regional performance. Our findings reveal a significant improvement for the Italian regions since ESM implementation, a paradoxically unchanged behavior for efficiency performance in the Centre-North regions, and clear identification of specifically which regions performed better in terms of the technology gap. The inclusion of variables related to regional trade performance in the model indicates that trade balance is of major importance.
2015
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67600/1/MPRA_paper_67600.pdf
Kounetas, Kostas and Napolitano, Oreste (2015): Too much EMU? An investigation of technology gaps.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:69557
2019-09-29T02:48:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/69557/
The Costs and Benefits of Alternative Development Patterns: A Paradigm of Two Universities
asif, numra
Asghar, Zahid
R10 - General
R14 - Land Use Patterns
R38 - Government Policy
R59 - Other
Cities are places where innovation, invention, technological and knowledge spillovers occur. However, they are also places where unemployment, crime, pollution, and exploitation of human resources occur. One major problem of cities of today is the low density leapfrog/scattered development pattern that leads to high service provision costs and reduces the welfare of society. This study aims at comparing the cost of smart versus scattered development patterns for Pakistan. Due to data limitations two universities are selected for analysis purpose. On the basis of observational analysis QAU is labeled as leapfrog/scattered whereas COMSATS is categorized as Compact Development. We hypothesize that low density scattered development leads to higher service provision and social costs and compact development can lead to cost savings. The empirical exercise consisted of a randomized survey indicate that COMSATS students have better access to different facilities due to compact development pattern. The ordinal probit model was employed on survey results. Connectivity was found to be significantly associated with walkability though association is not the same as causation. The comparative analysis for service provision cost showed striking cost differential, as QAU spends a lot more than COMSATS to provide basic facilities. The results prove the baseline hypothesis. It is suggested that. QAU should use elements of smart growth like infill development and should make better use of large land endowment rather than it has become a curse. Both universities should work to raise social interaction among students. The real benefits of smart growth lie with the cities, and each city should apply smart growth to achieve cost savings and higher social capital.
2016-02-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/69557/1/MPRA_paper_69557.pdf
asif, numra and Asghar, Zahid (2016): The Costs and Benefits of Alternative Development Patterns: A Paradigm of Two Universities.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:89584
2019-09-26T22:26:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/89584/
Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia
B Ferreira Neto, Amir
H40 - General
J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
L39 - Other
R59 - Other
This paper investigates the effect of public library programs and participation on unemployment and labor force participation in Appalachia. Appalachia is an economically distressed area, mostly rural, and with a sustained lower level of labor force participation and a higher level of unemployment. As public library programs can be countercyclical to labor market outcomes, I use public library staff and the amount of print resources and computers available as instruments. The results show that neither adult nor children’s programs and participation affect local labor market outcomes. These results are robust across different specifications. Spatial econometric estimates corroborate the main results and provide evidence of spatial spillover effects, especially for children’s programs.
2018-10-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/89584/1/MPRA_paper_89584.pdf
B Ferreira Neto, Amir (2018): Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:110906
2021-12-15T00:27:47Z
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7375626A656374733D52:5235:523539
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110906/
Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia
B Ferreira Neto, Amir
H40 - General
J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
L39 - Other
R59 - Other
This paper investigates the effect of public library programs and participation on unemployment and labor force participation in Appalachia. Appalachia is an economically distressed area, mostly rural, and with a sustained lower level of labor force participation and a higher level of unemployment. As public library programs can be cyclical to business cycles, i.e. labor market outcomes, I use public library staff and the amount and computers available as instruments. OLS estimates show no effect of adult or children’s programs and participation on local labor market outcomes. Spatial econometric estimates provide evidence of indirect effects of adults programs and children participation on labor force participation.
2018-10-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110906/5/MPRA_paper_110906.pdf
B Ferreira Neto, Amir (2018): Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:114332
2022-09-07T00:43:12Z
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74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/114332/
Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia
B Ferreira Neto, Amir
H40 - General
J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
L39 - Other
R59 - Other
This paper investigates the effect of public library programs and participation on unemployment and labor force participation in Appalachia. Appalachia is an economically distressed area, mostly rural, and with a sustained lower level of labor force participation and a higher level of unemployment. As public library programs can be cyclical to business cycles, i.e. labor market outcomes, I use public library staff and the amount and computers available as instruments. OLS estimates show no effect of adult or children’s programs and participation on local labor market outcomes. Spatial econometric estimates provide evidence of indirect effects of adults programs and children participation on labor force participation.
2018-10-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/114332/1/MPRA_paper_114332.pdf
B Ferreira Neto, Amir (2018): Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia. Forthcoming in: Spatial Economic Analysis (2022)
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