Building on the neo-endogenous rural development model and resource-based view of firm, this paper investigates role place-based amenities for new firm formation. Empirically, we employ a full-population dataset encompassing firms in Sweden from 2009 to 2016, combined with geocoded datasets spatial distribution nature- culture-based amenities. The results show that local are indeed important fa...

This paper is the first to link economic theory with empirical life-satisfaction analyses referring to internal migration. We derive an extension of the Roback (1982) model to account for benefits from regional amenities in the utility function, while controlling for income, housing costs, and migration costs. Using highly disaggregated spatial panel information on people’s migration decisions ...

The delivery of services for seniors in Canada is increasingly complex and challenging. Communities across Canada age at different rates, and the forces underlying the differences, such as "aging in place" and migration, vary from community to community. We have identified two types of aging communities: service-rich communities, in which seniors have good health status and better amenities, an...

Resumen-La sociedad actual demanda el desarrollo de sistemas que den soporte al trabajo colaborativo (CSCW). Sin embargo, su inherente complejidad dificulta la especificación de los requisitos reales, así como su producción rápida y barata. Para analizar, diseñar y desarrollar sistemáticamente este tipo de sistemas en el seno de nuestro grupo de investigación se ha creado la metodología AMENITI...

Quality of life depends on the assortment of amenities that individuals and businesses value. Differences in the amount and mix of those amenities should affect the geographic “sorting out” of households and businesses, as well as welfare. Policy makers recognize the trend toward widening intrametropolitan disparities among and within communities and have either discussed or proposed several me...

This paper and the proposed formulation contribute to an apparent gap in transit research design by integrating equity considerations into the transit frequency-setting problem. The proposed approach provides a means to design transit service such that equitable access to basic amenities (e.g., employment, supermarkets, medical services) is provided for lowincome populations or disadvantaged po...

Public health is increasingly engaging with multi-faceted obesity prevention efforts. Although parks represent key community assets for broader public health, they may not be distributed equitably and associations with obesity are equivocal. We investigated park access and quality relative to deprivation and obesity with individual-level data from the Yorkshire Health Study. Compared to the lea...