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Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road? 移民与创业:人才之路还是唯一之路?
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104093
Susana Iranzo
The available evidence suggests that migrant entrepreneurs contribute to a country’s growth and innovation, but entrepreneurship might also be chosen by less talented migrants who have limited chances in the labor market. This paper develops a theoretical framework that features specific constraints migrants face to better understand the mechanisms at play in their occupational choices. I test the model predictions using data for Spain right after the migration boom occurred from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. I find that human capital losses upon arrival are largely responsible for the low propensities to self-employment of the three largest migrant groups (Romanians, Moroccans and Ecuadorians) observed in the data. Also, I find no evidence of negative sorting into self-employment. Yet, the relatively large self-employment rate of Moroccans, once human capital is properly accounted for, and their low entrepreneurial quality is consistent with this group of migrants being subject to penalties in the labor market associated to information problems that push them into self-employment.
现有证据表明,移民企业家对一个国家的增长和创新做出了贡献,但创业也可能是那些在劳动力市场上机会有限、天赋较低的移民选择的。本文发展了一个理论框架,其中包含了移民面临的具体约束,以更好地理解他们在职业选择中发挥作用的机制。我用西班牙的数据测试了模型的预测,西班牙在20世纪90年代中期到21世纪头十年中期出现了移民热潮。我发现,在数据中观察到的三个最大的移民群体(罗马尼亚人、摩洛哥人和厄瓜多尔人)的自营职业倾向较低,主要原因是抵达后的人力资本损失。此外,我没有发现任何证据表明消极因素会被归为个体经营。然而,一旦适当考虑到人力资本,摩洛哥人的自营职业率相对较高,他们的创业素质较低,这与这群移民在劳动力市场上受到与迫使他们自营职业的信息问题有关的惩罚是一致的。
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Does it take extra skills to work in a large city? 在大城市工作需要额外的技能吗?
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104094
Harm Jan Rouwendal, Sierdjan Koster
This paper explores the relationship between job complexity and agglomeration. For this, we assess whether vacancies in larger cities require more skills than vacancies for similar jobs elsewhere. The use of online job vacancy data allows us to empirically analyse the spatial variation in skill requirements within occupations. Results show that jobs in dense areas require extra skills compared to similar jobs in sparsely populated areas. Moreover, we show that jobs in large cities require a more diverse skill set. This indicates that urban jobs are more complex. These findings help explain the productivity premium of cities and spatial inequalities between urban and rural labour markets.
本文探讨了工作复杂性与集聚的关系。为此,我们评估了大城市的职位空缺是否比其他地方的类似职位需要更多的技能。利用在线职位空缺数据,我们可以实证分析职业技能要求的空间差异。结果表明,与人口稀少地区的类似工作相比,人口稠密地区的工作需要额外的技能。此外,我们还表明,大城市的工作需要更多样化的技能。这表明城市工作更加复杂。这些发现有助于解释城市的生产率溢价和城乡劳动力市场的空间不平等。
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Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary? 卫生设施质量同伴效应:是否需要财政激励?
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104091
Finn McGuire , Rita Santos , Peter C. Smith , Nicholas Stacey , Ijeoma Edoka , Noemi Kreif
This paper examines peer effects in health facility quality in South Africa. Specifically, we investigate whether health facilities adapt their quality in response to changes in the quality of peer facilities, even in the absence of material incentives for doing so. Using a national census of public primary health facilities, we exploit data on structural and process components of quality, examining how these measures change from 2015 to 2017. We examine facilities strategic interactions using both a spatial econometrics approach and a more traditional quasi-experimental approach exploiting a quality improvement program as a source of exogeneous variation to estimate the response of facilities to changes in the quality of their peers. We find evidence of quality peer effects between primary health care facilities, with a 10-unit increase in average District facility quality causing facilities to increase their quality by 3.6 units. Given the lack of financial incentives, we propose prosocial motivation and reputational concerns as the mechanism inducing facilities to respond to changes in peer quality. This finding is consistent with recent literature which has stressed the role measurement and public reporting can play in improving public service, and particularly health care, provision. Importantly, our findings have significant policy implications suggesting the provision of relative performance information, allowing for peer comparisons, can induce a form of quality yardstick competition and be a credible quality improvement policy which may be considered alongside health financing reforms.
本文考察了南非卫生设施质量中的同伴效应。具体而言,我们调查卫生机构是否调整其质量以应对同行设施质量的变化,即使在没有物质激励的情况下这样做。通过对公共初级卫生设施的全国普查,我们利用了质量的结构和过程组成部分的数据,研究了这些措施在2015年至2017年之间的变化。我们使用空间计量经济学方法和更传统的准实验方法来研究设施的战略相互作用,利用质量改进计划作为异质变化的来源来估计设施对其同行质量变化的反应。我们发现初级卫生保健设施之间存在质量对等效应的证据,平均地区设施质量提高10个单位,导致设施质量提高3.6个单位。在缺乏经济激励的情况下,我们提出了亲社会动机和声誉关注作为诱导设施响应同伴质量变化的机制。这一发现与最近强调测量和公开报告在改善公共服务,特别是卫生保健提供方面可以发挥作用的文献是一致的。重要的是,我们的研究结果具有重要的政策意义,表明提供相对绩效信息,允许同行比较,可以诱导一种形式的质量标准竞争,并且是一种可信的质量改进政策,可以与卫生融资改革一起考虑。
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Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century 圣保罗的道路、交通和城市化的空间格局:来自20世纪下半叶的证据
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104092
Adriano Borges Costa , P. Christopher Zegras , Siqi Zheng
This article presents evidence of distinct long-term impacts from road and rail infrastructures on urban outgrowth and densification in São Paulo, Brazil (1947–1997) within a Global South context. Using long-difference ordinary least squares models and an instrumental variable approach, we find that the construction of avenues and arterial roads across urbanized areas drove urban expansion and accounted for forty percent of the outgrowth during this 50-year period. In contrast, rail transit investments fostered vertical neighborhood development responsible for one-third of the increase in floor area ratio, while also promoting land use specialization by attracting commercial buildings to central areas and stimulating residential real estate development in peripheral zones. Our findings align with patterns observed in the Global North, reinforcing the broader relationship between transportation investments and urban form.
本文展示了在全球南方背景下,道路和铁路基础设施对巴西圣保罗(1947-1997)城市发展和密度化的明显长期影响的证据。利用长差普通最小二乘模型和工具变量方法,我们发现,在这50年期间,城市化地区的大道和主干道的建设推动了城市扩张,占城市增长的40%。相比之下,轨道交通投资促进了垂直社区的发展,占容积率增长的三分之一,同时也通过吸引商业建筑到中心地区和刺激周边地区的住宅房地产开发来促进土地使用专业化。我们的研究结果与全球北方观察到的模式一致,强化了交通投资与城市形态之间更广泛的关系。
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Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market 同等地点同等价格?需求驱动的住房市场种族歧视
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104089
Anthony Lepinteur , Giorgia Menta , Sofie R. Waltl
We presented participants to an online study in Luxembourg with fictitious real-estate advertisements, tasking them to appraise the described properties. A random subset was also shown sellers’ surnames, strongly framed to signal their origins. All else equal, sellers with sub-Saharan African surnames were systematically offered lower prices — amounting to an appraisal penalty of EUR 20,000. This figure is highly heterogeneous and can amount up to around EUR 58,000 for older and low-educated participants. We provide evidence that the appraisal bias likely passes through onto final sales prices and that it may be largely due to statistical rather than taste-based discrimination.
我们在卢森堡向参与者展示了一个虚拟的房地产广告,要求他们评估所描述的房产。另外,研究人员还向随机抽取的一部分卖家展示了他们的姓氏,这些姓氏用强烈的框架来表示他们的出身。在其他条件相同的情况下,拥有撒哈拉以南非洲姓氏的卖家有系统地获得了较低的价格——相当于2万欧元的评估罚款。这一数字差异很大,对于年龄较大和受教育程度较低的参与者来说,这一数字可能高达58,000欧元左右。我们提供的证据表明,评估偏差可能会传递到最终的销售价格,这可能主要是由于统计而不是基于品味的歧视。
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Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach 中国自愿退休储蓄:空间有序probit方法
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104090
Yong Bao , Timothy N. Bond , Ruiting Sun , Xueping Xiong
This paper employs a spatial ordered probit model to study people’s voluntary retirement savings decisions using survey data collected in 2017 in China, where savings are recorded in a set of discrete ordered categories. To account for spillover effects and cross-sectional correlations, induced by for example omitted factors, we construct spatial connectivity matrices based on age and education for people located in the same province. We estimate the model using a Bayeisan scheme and discuss how to calculate various marginal effects, including those from nonstandard covariates like squared, binary, and multicategorical variables. Our empirical results indicate strong evidence of positive correlation in voluntary retirement savings decisions among high-income and low-income workers in both rural and urban areas. We find that participation in the government-managed basic pension is the strongest predictor of having high voluntary retirement savings, while the effects of income and gender vary across income-area groups.
本文采用一种空间有序probit模型,利用2017年在中国收集的调查数据研究人们自愿退休储蓄决策,其中储蓄被记录在一组离散有序类别中。为了解释溢出效应和横断面相关性,例如被忽略的因素,我们构建了基于年龄和教育程度的空间连通性矩阵。我们使用贝叶斯方案估计模型,并讨论如何计算各种边际效应,包括非标准协变量(如平方,二进制和多分类变量)的边际效应。我们的实证结果表明,在农村和城市地区的高收入和低收入工人中,自愿退休储蓄决策具有很强的正相关性。我们发现,参加政府管理的基本养老金是拥有高自愿退休储蓄的最强预测指标,而收入和性别的影响因收入区域群体而异。
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Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model 居家办公与城市:一个基本的空间模型
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104086
Jan K. Brueckner
This paper analyzes the urban impacts of hybrid WFH in the simplest possible model, relying on Leontief utility and production functions and other simplifying assumptions. The analysis shows that introduction of WFH raises both the wage and household land consumption (raising worker utility) while shrinking the size of the business district and reducing business land rent. When WFH requires home work space, the city’s overall spatial size increases, with residential rents rising in the suburbs while falling near the center. The decline in business rent and the rotation of the residential rent contour match empirical evidence showing that WFH reduces office-building values and flattens the residential rent gradient.
本文基于Leontief效用和生产函数等简化假设,在尽可能简单的模型下分析混合水水对城市的影响。分析结果表明,引入WFH不仅提高了工资水平,还提高了家庭土地消费(提高了劳动者的效用),同时还缩小了商圈面积,降低了企业土地租金。当WFH需要家庭工作空间时,城市的整体空间规模增加,郊区的住宅租金上涨,而中心附近的住宅租金下降。商业租金的下降和住宅租金等高线的旋转与实证证据相吻合,表明WFH降低了办公楼价值,使住宅租金梯度趋于平缓。
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Administrative areas and regional identity formation: The case of East Germany 行政区域与区域认同的形成:以东德为例
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104088
Stefanie Gäbler , Kim Leonie Kellermann
Changing regional administrative structures may have unintended consequences for citizens’ identification with their respective regions. We exploit a historical quasi-experiment to provide novel evidence on the formation of sub-national identities with changing administrative boundaries. During the German Reunification in 1990, federal states in East Germany were re-established. Some counties were located at the intersection of former GDR districts and historical federal states, creating uncertainty about their future state affiliation. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we show that in counties with initially unclear state affiliation, voter turnout in state elections after 1990 decreases by up to 2.5 percentage points. Turnout in national and local elections does not show significant difference. We argue that the uncertainty about their regional affiliation diminished citizens’ political engagement by undermining their identification with the federal state level.
改变地区行政结构可能会对公民对各自地区的认同产生意想不到的后果。我们利用一个历史准实验来提供新的证据,证明随着行政边界的变化,次国家身份的形成。1990年两德统一期间,东德的联邦州重新建立。一些县位于前德意志民主共和国地区和历史上的联邦州的交汇处,这给它们未来的州归属创造了不确定性。使用差异中的差异方法,我们表明,在最初不明确州归属的县,1990年后州选举的选民投票率下降了2.5个百分点。全国和地方选举的投票率没有显著差异。我们认为,区域归属的不确定性削弱了公民对联邦州一级的认同,从而削弱了公民的政治参与。
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Leases over real property 不动产租赁
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104087
Dylan R. Clarke
This paper develops a model in which housing incurs a property damage for which the tenant must sue in order to be made whole. The model is analyzed under both market rents and rent control regimes, as well as for tenants with limited wealth, bilateral (tenant) investment, coinsurance, and rent abatement. The model facilitates the evaluation of several policies, such as rent control, landlord–tenant laws, income redistribution, tenant’s insurance, and rent abatement. The model makes several predictions which are consistent with empirical findings in housing economics, such as why the poor occupy housing of worse condition and how laws shifting liability onto the landlord increase the quality of housing for poor tenants as well as increase rent prices. It also nests classic hypotheses, such as the Calabresi’s efficiency of strict liability rules and the least cost avoider, in addition to clarifications on Friedman’s prediction that rent control decreases investment.
本文建立了一个房屋发生财产损失的模型,承租人必须提出诉讼才能得到赔偿。该模型在市场租金和租金管制制度、有限财富租户、双边(租户)投资、共同保险和租金减免的情况下进行了分析。该模型有助于评估若干政策,如租金管制、房东-租客法、收入再分配、租客保险和租金减免。该模型做出了一些预测,这些预测与住房经济学的实证研究结果一致,比如为什么穷人住的房子条件更差,以及法律将责任转移到房东身上,如何提高了贫困租户的住房质量,同时提高了租金价格。它还包含了经典的假设,比如卡拉布雷西的严格责任规则的效率和最小成本规避者,除了澄清弗里德曼关于租金控制会减少投资的预测。
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Neighborhood impacts on human capital accumulation of adolescents and young adults in Montevideo 邻里对蒙得维的亚青少年和青壮年人力资本积累的影响
IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104085
Santiago Acerenza , Nestor Gandelman , Daniel Misail
This paper explores the causal impacts of the neighborhood of residence on education outcomes for adolescents and young adults (15–24 years old) in Montevideo. We analyze educational trends from 1992 to 2019, revealing persistence and pronounced geographical segmentation between the affluent southeast and the more disadvantaged outskirts of the city. We model the neighborhood effects through the neighborhood average education level. We estimate their causal impact using a control function for addressing selection on unobservables. We find statistically significant results of a relatively large magnitude. We address heterogeneity of the effects and find that neighborhood effects are stronger for boys than girls, that family income buffers neighborhood effects, and that household education level and neighborhood education level are complements.
本文探讨了居住社区对蒙得维的亚青少年和年轻人(15-24岁)教育成果的因果影响。我们分析了1992年至2019年的教育趋势,揭示了富裕的东南地区和较贫困的郊区之间的持久性和明显的地理分割。我们通过邻里平均教育水平来模拟邻里效应。我们使用控制函数来估计它们的因果影响,以解决不可观察的选择。我们发现统计上显著的结果相对较大。我们分析了影响的异质性,发现男孩的邻里效应强于女孩,家庭收入缓冲邻里效应,家庭教育水平和邻里教育水平是互补的。
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