Employment ; Financing ; Housing ; Housing market ; Labour market ; Labour mobility ; Neo-classical model
Labour mobility as a concept has different meanings in different contexts. It was often confined to a discussion of geographical movement between labour markets and the constraints imposed by the tenure position. But it captures only one aspect
of job movement. An alternative explanation of labour and housing market interactions is provided. After a review of the debates over the last 50 years, the involvement of employers in the housing market is examined. The interaction is studied
The European Union's single market and Latin America's banana exporting countries
Export ; Fruit ; International trade ; Latin America ; Market ; Organization
Examination of the policy implemented in 1993 by the European Union in favor of a single market for bananas. Latin American exporters outside the Caribbean are being shut out of this market, with serious economic consequences for them, even though
Alaskan airline markets : a case study in spatial decision making
Air transport ; Airline ; Alaska ; Choice ; Decision ; Logit model ; Market ; Transport
The nature of market decisions made by airlines operating within Alaska is examinated. Author focuses on which variables, internal and external to the firm, are associated with decisions to either add, delete, or retain markets within a system
. Discrete-choice analysis involving the logit model was used to evaluate the market decisions of Alaskan airline firms during the 1988-1993 period. Major variables included changing levels of competitive rivalry, network configuration, and changes in fleet
Geo-Daten und Analyseinstrumente im Geo-Marketing. - Datenverfüssigkeit, Datenarktualität
Data ; Data analysis ; Economic analysis ; Geographical information system ; Market ; Market segmentation
Starting from the classical market surveying this article delineates the theoretical background of geo-marketing and the meaning of business GIS. It aims at elaborating individual steps of the technical implementation. - (L'A.).
This book is the result of a German-Dutch seminar on regional-economic issues. The central theme of this Garderen-seminar was Industrial organization: the firm and its labour market. The published papers deal with case studies situated
The AA. examine profit, price, output and welfare under mill and uniform pricing in a monopolistic spatial market with nonlinear demand, a general consumer distribution function, and a general transportation cost function.
Bulgaria ; Cooperative ; Financing ; Housing ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Privatisation ; State control
This paper explores the extent to which state intervention and market forces affect the housing provision system. Bulgarian housing policy reform is analysed with emphasis on the dynamics of change, the formation of a new market-oriented system
Roots, branches, leaves, stems, bark, fruits and seeds from Nepal are exported in large amounts to India for use in traditional medicine and essential oils. The marketing of these raw materials has various levels of intermediaries. A. offers
Subcontracting the accountant! Professional labour markets, migration, and organisational networks in the global accountancy industry
Expertise ; Firm strategy ; International migration ; Labour ; Labour market ; Labour migration ; Network ; Offices ; Skilled labour ; Sub-contracting
The notion of labour market is discussed within the context of international migration of skilled labour in the accountancy industry. The practices of large accountancy firms have restructured the demand for professional labour on a global scale
Mill pricing and spatial price discrimination: monopoly performance and location with spatial retail markets
Location ; Market area ; Population density ; Price fixing ; Retail trade ; Spatial economy ; Spatial equilibrium ; Transport cost
What emerges in this paper is a model where density functions approximate a pair of cities isolated from other cities. Each city has its own retail market, while the location of a single production or wholesale point is determined by characteristics
of the two markets. Comparisons of mill pricing and spatial price discrimination found in the spatial monopoly literature can be interpreted as special cases of the more general framework provided here.
to rent ratios are higher than the rational level for both subsidised and free-market housing. Unique Chinese housing market equilibria are analysed and policy recommendations on commercialising Chinese urban housing are suggested.
Le but de cette étude est de comprendre le spectre des initiatives qui, actuellement, en République Fédérale font partie du concept de marketing régional. Il s'agit de montrer les chances et les limites de cette approche et de la soumettre à une
étude critique. Le procédé méthodologique est fondé sur l'envoi d'un questionnaire standard à toutes les initiatives qui sont exercées sous le concept de marketing réionale en République Fédérale. Des inteviews des responsables sur place complètent
Modeling constrained choice behaviour in regulated housing markets by means of discrete choice experiments and universal logit models: an application to the residential choice behaviour of divorcees
The AA. aim to propose and demonstrate how discrete choice experiments and logit models may be used to estimate choice models. They wish to test whether preferences of divorcees are invariant with differential access to housing-market segments
Housing and the Scottish new towns: a case study of policy termination and quasi-markets
and this is explained by reference to models of policy termination and succession, and to developments in the creation of quasi-markets, which created expectations of consumer choice.