scholarly journals A place migrants would call home: open-ended constructions and social determinants over time among Ecuadorians in three European cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Boccagni ◽  
Bernardo Armanni ◽  
Cristiano Santinello
Keyword(s):  
Logit Model ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
International Migrants ◽  
Newcomer Immigrants ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Transnational Engagement

AbstractIs there a place in particular that international migrants would call home? How do they talk about it, where does it lie, and what characteristics is it expected to have, given their demographics and patterns of settlement? Similar questions are meaningful in themselves and in illuminating migrant biographical, family and housing trajectories. We address them, in this paper, through the categorization and multinomial analysis of the responses to a dedicated open-ended question in a survey on Ecuadorians in Madrid, Milan and London (n = 1175). This original dataset allows us to explore migrant views of home against the background of their demographics and of their migration and housing conditions. We analyse respondents’ ways to articulate, spatialize and prioritize key aspects of home through a logit model, thereby assessing their association with age, length of stay, housing tenure, family networks and city of residence. Overall, their predominant construction of home points to a place in the country of settlement, but not necessarily to their own dwelling. Younger and newcomer immigrants see home as a primarily relational construct, whereas older and long-stayers emphasize its place-based and private dimension. Significant variations in the expected emplacement and bases of home can be found across cities of residence. However, no significant variations are associated either with gender or with migrants’ transnational engagement.

Constrained Assortment Optimization Under the Paired Combinatorial Logit Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan Ghuge ◽  
Joseph Kwon ◽  
Viswanath Nagarajan ◽  
Adetee Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Logit Model ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Customer Behavior ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Customer Choice ◽  
Assortment Optimization ◽  
Selected Subset ◽  
Unconstrained Problem ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Customer Choice Model

Assortment optimization involves selecting a subset of products to offer to customers in order to maximize revenue. Often, the selected subset must also satisfy some constraints, such as capacity or space usage. Two key aspects in assortment optimization are (1) modeling customer behavior and (2) computing optimal or near-optimal assortments efficiently. The paired combinatorial logit (PCL) model is a generic customer choice model that allows for arbitrary correlations in the utilities of different products. The PCL model has greater modeling power than other choice models, such as multinomial-logit and nested-logit. In “Constrained Assortment Optimization Under the Paired Combinatorial Logit Model,” Ghuge, Kwon, Nagarajan, and and Sharma provide efficient algorithms that find provably near-optimal solutions for PCL assortment optimization under several types of constraints. These include the basic unconstrained problem (which is already intractable to solve exactly), multidimensional space constraints, and partition constraints. The authors also demonstrate via extensive experiments that their algorithms typically achieve over 95% of the optimal revenues.

Housing and Living Conditions in Jordan, 2010–2016

2019 ◽  
pp. 289-312
Author(s):  
Ahmed Elsayed
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Housing Characteristics ◽  
Original Dataset

This chapter uses a new and original dataset, the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey (JLMPS) of 2010 and 2016, to study living and housing conditions in Jordan. In 2016 the JLMPS oversampled regions with a high concentration of refugees enabling us to investigate the housing conditions of refugees living out-of- and in-refugee camps. The chapter documents changes in housing characteristics for Jordanian households during 2010–16 and compares the living and housing conditions in 2016 for out-of- and in-camp refugees to that of locals. It shows that living conditions for local households improved: the share of home ownership and share of households living in private houses increased between 2010 and 2016. The chapter further shows that while the majority of refugees live out-of-refugee camps, those who live in-camps have worse living conditions manifested in smaller living areas, worse access to public facilities, and less ownership of durable assets.

Replacing the family? Beguinages in early modern western European cities: an analysis of the family networks of beguines living in Mechelen (1532–1591)

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIM OVERLAET
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Family

ABSTRACTIn many early modern towns of the southern Low Countries, beguinages gave adult single women of all ages the possibility to lead a religious life of contemplation in a secure setting, retaining rights to their property and not having to take permanent vows. This paper re-examines the family networks of these women by means of a micro-study of the wills left by beguines who lived in the Great Beguinage of St Catherine in sixteenth-century Mechelen, a middle-sized city in the Low Countries. By doing so, this research seeks to add nuance to a historiography that has tended to consider beguinages as artificial families, presumably during a period associated with the increasing dominance of the nuclear family and the unravelling ties of extended family.

Changes in residential satisfaction after home relocation: A longitudinal study in Beijing, China

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenglong Wang ◽  
Donggen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Residential Satisfaction ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Neighbourhood Environment ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Beijing China

The literature on residential mobility pays little attention to the outcomes of residential relocation and their determinants. This study aims to address this shortfall by examining the link between home relocation and change in residential satisfaction based on data from a two-wave sample survey in Beijing, China. The data is collected through interviews with a sample of 537 participants who planned to move and eventually did move in Beijing. A multi-level structural equation model is developed to analyse the determinants of change in residential satisfaction after home relocation. The results show that people generally become more satisfied with their residence after relocation. The major determinants of residential satisfaction changes are adjustments in housing conditions (including housing tenure and dwelling space) and neighbourhood environment (including physical design, absence of nuisance, social interaction and accessibility to various facilities). The findings of this research not only enrich the literature on residential satisfaction and residential mobility, but may also help to improve urban planning and public housing policies.

Behavioral Testing of Mice Concerning Anxiety and Depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 223 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Schweinfurth ◽  
Undine E. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Sickness Behavior ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Behavioral Testing ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Animal Trials ◽  
Resilience Factors

Abstract. In the development of new psychiatric drugs and the exploration of their efficacy, behavioral testing in mice has always shown to be an inevitable procedure. By studying the behavior of mice, diverse pathophysiological processes leading to depression, anxiety, and sickness behavior have been revealed. Moreover, laboratory research in animals increased at least the knowledge about the involvement of a multitude of genes in anxiety and depression. However, multiple new possibilities to study human behavior have been developed recently and improved and enable a direct acquisition of human epigenetic, imaging, and neurotransmission data on psychiatric pathologies. In human beings, the high influence of environmental and resilience factors gained scientific importance during the last years as the search for key genes in the development of affective and anxiety disorders has not been successful. However, environmental influences in human beings themselves might be better understood and controllable than in mice, where environmental influences might be as complex and subtle. The increasing possibilities in clinical research and the knowledge about the complexity of environmental influences and interferences in animal trials, which had been underestimated yet, question more and more to what extent findings from laboratory animal research translate to human conditions. However, new developments in behavioral testing of mice involve the animals’ welfare and show that housing conditions of laboratory mice can be markedly improved without affecting the standardization of results.

Web-Based Financial Reporting: An Interpretative Model for Corporate Communications on Social Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Paola Ramassa ◽  
Costanza Di Fabio
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Corporate Communications ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Financial Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Interpretative Model

This paper aims at contributing to financial reporting literature by proposing a conceptual interpretative model to analyse the corporate use of social media for financial communication purposes. In this perspective, the FIRE model provides a framework to study social media shifting the focus on the distinctive features that might enhance web investor relations. The model highlights these features through four building blocks: (i) firm identity (F); (ii) information posting (I); (iii) reputation (R); and (iv) exchange and diffusion (E). They represent key aspects to explore corporate communication activities and might offer a framework to interpret to what degree corporate web financial reporting exploits the potential of social media. Accordingly, the paper proposes metrics based on this model aimed at capturing the interactivity of corporate communications via social media, with a particular focus on web financial reporting. It tries to show the potential of this model by illustrating an exploratory empirical analysis investigating to what extent companies use social media for financial reporting purposes and whether firms are taking advantage of Twitter distinctive features of interaction and diffusion.

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