Israel is steadily shifting towards a services-heavy economy. The city of Tel Aviv, which specializes in commercial, business and financial services, is the country’s office-space capital. This study aims to reveal the factors influencing rent levels within Tel Aviv’s expanding...

We set out to investigate whether transportation improvements can trigger welfare economic impacts in a peripheral region. The paper addresses this issue through the development of a general equilibrium labor market model with a transportation component. The model is implemented to a set of 101...

The aim of this paper is to assess the short-term impact of transportation improvements on the reduction of socio-economic disparities between core and peripheral cities. Data used in the analysis was extracted from the 1995 Israel Census. The methodology applied in the study was to estimate...