OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between general practitioner vocational training location and subsequent practice location, including the effect of rural origin. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Annual panel survey of GPs (from the MABEL study) who completed their vocational training and transitioned to independent practice, 2008-2014. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Rural practice location in the 5 yea...

introduction the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area has undergone a complex set of population shifts amid growing diversity. This brief documents those changes with recent data. For this research, we divide the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area into three parts: • the city of Manchester, with a population of 108,900 in 2007 • the city of nashua, with a population of 86,800 in 2007 • the bala...

This article addresses the homeownership attainment of immigrants and native borns in five metropolitan areas: Los Angeles; New York; Washington, DC; Atlanta; and Philadelphia. The major question for analysis is the role of occupational achievement in shaping the attainment of homeownership for specific cohorts between 1980 and 1990. This effect is estimated in addition to that of human capital...

The neglectof the rail sector in Brazil that went on for decades is fortunately being overcome, especially in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, with the subways and monorails, an example to other Brazilian metropolitan regions. The historical disconnection between the passenger transport modals combined with the increasing private vehicle fleet and the lack of investment in mass transit sys...

We investigate the relationship between patenting activity and the size of metropolitan areas in the United States over the last two decades (1980-2001). We find a clear superlinear effect, whereby patents are granted disproportionately in larger urban centers, thus showing increasing returns in inventing activity with respect to population size. We characterize this relation quantitatively as ...

Optical Packet Switching (OPS) is among the most promising solutions for next generation metropolitan networks. The increase of packetbased services (video on demand, etc.) is pushing metropolitan networks providers to renew their infrastructures. Today, metropolitan networks are based on SONET/SDH circuit-switched networks, which are becoming inefficient and costly to support new requirements ...

The modern metropolitan area typically contains not only multiple jurisdictions but also the interests of many stakeholders. Concerns about the formation in metropolitan areas have created some of the most important questions for the field of urban politics and economics. The traditional approach for this complexity sheds more light on political fragmentation and the efficiency in providing loc...

Metropolitan areas have come under intense pressure to respond to federal mandates to link planning of land use, transportation, and environmental quality; and from citizen concerns about managing the side effects of growth such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability, and loss of open space. The planning models used by Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) were generally not designed...

This paper analyzes redistribution by municipalities in a metropolitan area using the classical model of residential land use in a monocentric city. Crossing bid rent curves lead to spatial segregation of household types which might shield high-income households from redistribution by municipalities. If rich households live farer away from the central business district than poor households, the...