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Morris, Mark; Emmi, Philip C.; Bartholomew, Keith A.; Brown, Barbara B. | Rail-volution: building livable communities with transit | Rail-volution 2005, September 8-10, 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah. Workshop Summary. | Transportation; Community Development; Urban transportation; Public transportation | 2005-09 |
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Wen, Ming | Residential racial composition and black-white obesity risks: differential effects of neighborhood social and built environment | This study investigates the association between neighborhood racial composition and adult obesity risks by race and gender, and explores whether neighborhood social and built environment mediates the observed protective or detrimental effects of racial composition on obesity risks. Cross-sectional d... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Yu, Zhou; Myers, Dowell | Convergence or divergence in Los Angeles: three distinctive ethnic patterns of immigrant residential assimilation | This paper uses census microdata to examine five aspects of residential assimilation in the greater Los Angeles area. A double cohort method is used to separate the effect of duration in the U.S. from the effect of aging. We track a single arrival cohort that came in 1970-79, and analyze the process... | Residential assimilation; Immigrants; Cohort; Los Angeles; Homeownership | 2006-01-11 |
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Yu, Zhou | Does immigration induce urban sprawl? A dynamic demographic analysis for the U. S. | This article, utilizing U.S. Census data from 1980 and 1990, probes the relationship between immigration and urban sprawl. The preliminary findings reveal that native-born and foreign-born populations are very different regarding their household behaviors. Population growth caused by immigration is... | Urban sprawl; Immigration; Household growth; Population growth | 2002 |
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Wei, Y. H. Dennis | Location decisions and network configurations of foreign investment in urban China | This article studies location decisions and network configurations of FDI in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, located in the northwest of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Built upon the perspective that China?s economic transition can be conceptualized as a triple pr of globalization, market... | | 2010 |
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Francis, Leslie | Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City: easy taking-clause cases make uncertain Law. | In Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City, the Supreme Court held that New York City's Landmarks Preservation Law as applied to Grand Central Terminal was not a "taking" of property for which compensation is constitutionally required. The decision has been hailed as a major victory for... | Law; Compensation; Property Rights; Landmarks Preservation Law; Supreme Court Rulings | 2006-06-16 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Ghettos and jobs in history: neighborhood effects on African American occupational status and mobility in World War I-era Cincinnati, Ohio | This article examines how residence in racially segregated neighborhoods affected the job prospects of African American men in the late 1910s. The analysis focuses on one northern city-Cincinnati, Ohio.The evidence comes from a new longitudinal dataset containing information on individuals linked... | Economic outcomes; Residential segregation; Black urban neighborhoods | 2005 |
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Francis, Leslie | Eminent domain compensation in the Western states: a critique of the fair market value model | Both the United States Constitution and the constitutions of the states of the intermountain west and the Pacific Coast prohibit the state from taking property without paying just compensation. Thus, there are two basic issues in any eminent domain case. First, has governmental interference with pro... | Eminent domain; Compensation; Governmental interference; Fair Market Value | 2006-06-16 |
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | South from Alaska: a pilot aDNA study of genetic history on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians | Abstract The Aleutian Islands were colonized, perhaps several times, from the Alaskan mainland. Earlier work documented transitions in the relative frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups over time, but little is known about potential source populations for prehistoric Aleut migrants. As part of a pilot i... | | 2010 |
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Wei, Yehua | Restructuring industrial districts, scaling up regional development: a study of the Wenzhou Model, China | The Wenzhou Municipality in Zhejiang Province is spearheading China's marketization and development of private enterprises. Its successful development trajectory, centered on family-owned small businesses embedded in thick local institutions, resembles Marshallian industrial districts (MIDs). Howeve... | China; Marshallian industrial district, regional lock-in; Wenzhou Model, China | 2007-09-24 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Higher places in the industrial machinery?: tight labor markets and occupational advancement by black males in the 1910s | The economic history of African American workers since 1940 has been marked by alternating episodes of progress and stagnation. Sharp gains in relative incomes during the 1940s were followed by little change in this measure in the 1950s. Renewed progress from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s was follo... | Black people; Job opportunities; Labor market | 2005 |
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Unangan past and present: the contrasts between observed and inferred histories | Abstract Academic research focusing on the population and culture history of the Aleut (Unangan) people began in the late 19th century and continues to the present. The papers in this special issue of Human Biology summarize the latest results from archaeological, linguistic, genetic, and morphometr... | | 2010 |
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Wei, Y. H. Dennis | Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: implications for technological dynamism and regional development | This paper analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and R&D activities in China and discusses their implications for technological dynamism and regional development. We investigate foreign ventures (or foreign-invested enterprises, FIEs) in the information and communication technology... | | 2012-01 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Making the effort: the racial contours of Detroit's labor markets, 1920-1940 | In 1940 the Ford Motor Company employed half of the black men in Detroit but only 14 percent of the whites. The authors postulate that black Detroiters were concentrated at Ford because they were excluded from working elsewhere. Those most affected were young married black men. A Ford job was vir... | Automotive workers - Black people; Ford Motor Company | 1995 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Personnel policy, costs of experimentation, and racial inequality in the Pre-World War II North | Between 1910 and 1940, the black population of the northern United States nearly tripled, rising from just over I million to more than 2.7 million, signaling the start of the "Great Migration" of African-Americans out of the South. As black workers entered the North, they sought positions in new sec... | Race bias; Personnel policies; African Americans; Employment opportunities | 1999 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Crime, new housing, and housing incivilities in a first-ring suburb: multilevel relationships across time | Concepts deriving from criminology, housing policy, and environmental psychology are integrated to test two ways that housing conditions could relate to crime in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City. For existing housing, we use a model to test whether housing incivilities, such as litte... | Community development; Community revitalization; Crime; Urban policy | 2004 |
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Wen, Ming | Personal, social, and ecological influences on loneliness and satisfaction among rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai, China | This study examined personal, social, and ecological influences on loneliness and satisfaction among rural-urban migrants in Shanghai, China. Data used in this study were from the Shanghai Rural-to-Urban Migrant Worker Survey conducted by the Institute of Demographic Research, Fudan University, C... | Lonliness; Rural-to-urban migration; Internal migration; Shanghai, China | 2008-02-02 |
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Brown, Barbara B.; Werner, Carol M. | Walkable route perceptions and physical features: converging evidence for en-route walking experiences | Guided walks near a light rail stop in downtown Salt Lake City, UT, were examined using a 2 (gender) x 3 (route walkability: low, mixed, or high walkability features) design. Trained raters confirmed that more walkable segments had more traffic, environmental and social safety; pleasing aesthetics;... | Guided walks; Walkability; Environmental aesthetics; Urban environment; Incivilities; Salt Lake City | 2007-01-01 |
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Wei, Y. H. Dennis | Institutions, location, and network of multinational enterprises in China: a case study of Hangzhou | Based on extensive interviews with local government officials and a survey of forty-four foreign-invested enterprises, this paper examines the role of local formal institutions and their constituent components in intra-urban location decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and in network pro... | Institutions; Multinational enterprises; Foreign investment; Hangzhou, China | 2008-01 |
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Holzner, Claudio A.; Jameson, Kenneth P.; Maloney, Thomas N.; Abebe, Berhanie; Lund, Matthew; Schaub, Kristen | Economic impact of the Mexico-Utah relationship | This study began during the Summer of 2005 and set out to examine the complexity of the globalized relation between Utah and Mexico, concentrating on broadly defined "economic linkages." It was designed to build upon earlier similar studies done in Arizona and in Texas on those states' relations wit... | Economics, Utah; Migration; Immigration; Mexico; Undocumented immigrants | 2006-03-10 |
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Yu, Zhou | Leaving gateway metropolitan areas in the United States: immigrants and the housing market | Immigration is no longer a phenomenon that is simply affecting gateway metropolitan areas in the United States. This analysis demonstrates that large numbers of immigrants are moving to other metropolitan areas and analyzes the housing outcomes of households who currently live in the fourteen larges... | Homeownership; Migrants; Households | 2008-05-01 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Association of physical and behavioral characteristics with menstrual cycle patterns in women age 29-31 years | We examined the association between menstrual cycle characteristics(cycle length, variability, and bleeding length) and physical and behavioral attributes in 766 women age 29-31 years. Menstrual cycled at a were prospectively recorded as part of the Menstruation and Reproductive History Study of col... | | 1996 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership determinants for Chinese Americans: assimilation, ethnic concentration, and nativity | Chinese homeownership rates in the Los Angeles CMSA adjusted by socioeconomic and housing market characteristics are on average 18 percentage points higher than those of native white households Painter et al. (2003). This finding runs contrary to most of immigration literature, which suggests that i... | Chinese Americans; homeownership | 2004 |
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Wen, Ming | Neighborhood socioeconomic status and BMI differences by immigrant and legal status: Evidence from Utah | We build on recent work examining the BMI patterns of immigrants in the US by distinguishing between legal and undocumented immigrants. We find that undocumented women have relative odds of obesity that are about 10 percentage points higher than for legal immigrant women, and their relative odds of ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Yu, Zhou, Haan, Michael, Yi, Chengdong | The Inception of Housing Pathways in Urban China: The Declining Household Formation of Young Adults from 2011 to 2017 | The homeownership rate of young adults has surged to an unprecedented level in urban China, despite rising housing prices and significant rural-urban migration. A trend analysis of nationally representative microdata shows that household formation is the missing link in the paradox and that many you... | Household formation; headship rates; young adults; migration; institutional barriers; housing pathways | 2017 |
