Economic theory predicts that individual migration decisions for working-age adults will depend on area differences in wages, housing costs, and amenities. While the importance of wages and amenities is well-established from previous empirical studies, evidence regarding housing costs is far...

[fre] Tous les salariés n’ont pas les mêmes chances d’accéder . à la formation continue financée par leur entreprise. . Le salarié pour qui cette probabilité est la plus élevée n’est novice ni dans son poste ni sur le marché du travail, occupe un emploi de cadre ou une profession...

[eng] Rural labour markets : . between paternalism influence and job matching difficulties . In this contribution, rural space is regarded as characterised mainly by low density of population and jobs and by small size of the firms. The impact of these characteristics on the labour market is...

This paper attempts to determine whether residential location affects unemployment duration. Our analysis is based on a spatial job search framework that shows the importance of dissociating the role of travel time from physical distance in unemployment duration. The contribution of our study...

There is a wide consensus among international institutions and national governments in favor of compact (i.e. densely populated) cities as a way to improve the ecological performance of the transport system. Indeed, when both the intercity and intra-urban distributions of activities are given, a...

We analyze the impact of input tariffs on the export status and export performance of heterogeneous processing firms. Using a theoretical model with downstream firms exhibiting different levels of productivity, we show that lower input tariffs may increase the export sales of high-productivity...

The purpose of this paper is to broaden the Terrestrial Transport Infrastructure (TTI) assessment process into the field of Ecosystem Services (ES), i.e., the benefits people derive from ecosystems. Taking into account ES in an ex ante assessment of public infrastructure projects is of critical...