STATISTICALLY REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DANISH NONPROFIT HOUSING

Synthetic regional Danish

The speech technological scene in Denmark is slowly gaining public and commercial attention, and today there is a call for more diverse products than just recognition and synthesis of standard Danish (i.e. the Copenhagen regiolect). In this working paper, we demonstrate how an existing synthesis engine may be tuned to provide a regiolect speaking voice, involving in its simplest form prosodic a...

National and Regional Housing Patterns

R esidential investment is one of the most volatile components of GDP. Coming out of a recession, it is not uncommon for residential investment to jump by more than 20 percent in a year. Going into a recession, it may fall by a similar fraction. Thus, while residential investment accounts for just 4 percent of GDP, it can have a disproportionate influence at critical junctures. Fluctuations in ...

Housing assistance and regional disadvantage

Vowels in regional variants of Danish

This paper presents the results of an acoustic investigation of the vowel sounds in three regional variants of Danish in spontaneous speech. The material for elicitation represents a conceptual fusion of word lists and interviews. A total of 18 subjects from three regions have been analysed. The expected regional differences have not been found. We find, however, clear indications that a genera...

Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that clearing of land markets may undo the...