The local turn in integration policies: why French cities differ

Cities, Electronic Commerce, and Local Policies

The Labor Supply of Married Women: Why Does It Differ across U.s. Cities?

Using Census Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS) data for 1980, 1990 and 2000, this paper documents a little-noticed feature of U.S. labor markets—that there is wide variation in the labor market participation rates and annual work hours of white married women across urban areas. This variation is also large among sub-groups, including women with children and those with different levels of education...

Why Do Cities Matter? Local Growth and Aggregate Growth

We study how growth of cities determines the growth of nations. Using a spatial equilibrium model and data on 220 US metropolitan areas from 1964 to 2009, we first estimate the contribution of each U.S. city to national GDP growth. We show that the contribution of a city to aggregate growth can differ significantly from what one might naively infer from the growth of the city’s GDP. Despite som...

The civic turn of immigrant integration policies in the Scandinavian welfare states

This special issue addresses the question of how to understand the civic turn within immigrant integration in the West towards programs and instruments, public discourses and political intentions, which aim to condition, incentivize, and shape through socialization immigrants into 'citizens'. Empirically, it focuses on the less studied Scandinavian cases of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. In this ...

(Why) Do Prices Differ Across US Cities? Balassa-Samuelson Versus 42nd Street