Arbeitspapier
Sunnier, denser and more productive cities
We set out an open, monocentric city with residential structures and reflect how changes to the amenity index affects the city. On the consumption side an amenity is represented by an exogenous boost to the utility of a resident's current commodity bundle. The cities population, land rent and footprint expand and its density rises. We test for an amenity effect in local wages with household data for the US in 1990 and discover the city density is much stronger in explaining local premia than is the city population. We test for amenity effects in local house prices with the same data set.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1190
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Land Use Patterns
- Subject
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Climatic amenities
Density
Wages
Stadtentwicklung
Kommunalplanung
Ballungsraum
Lebensqualität
Produktivität
Lohnniveau
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Brolley, Michael
Hartwick, John
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Queen's University, Department of Economics
- (where)
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Kingston (Ontario)
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Brolley, Michael
- Hartwick, John
- Queen's University, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2008
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