Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
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Keywords
Natural disasters; internal migration; economic history; regional and urban economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N91 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- N31 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2024-07-22 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2024-07-22 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-INV-2024-07-22 (Investment)
- NEP-LAB-2024-07-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2024-07-22 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2024-07-22 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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