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Are Commuters in the EU Better Educated than Non-Commuters but Worse than Migrants?

Huber, Peter - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2011

I analyse the skill and age structure of commuters in 14 EU countries. Theory implies that commuters can be either more or less able than stayers, but are always less able than migrants and that they are also always older than migrants but younger than stayers. Empirically all types of commuters...

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Commuting, Residence and Workplace Location Attractiveness and Local Public Goods

Nowotny, Klaus - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2010

Being at the heart of today's working life, commuting is of central interest to geographers, policy makers, transport … planners and economists alike. This article analyses aggregate commuting using various groups of variables. A special focus is … facilities, and local amenities affect commuting decisions on the aggregate level and to what extent commuting can be explained …

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Do Commuters Suffer from Job-education Mismatch?

Huber, Peter - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO)

Cross-border commuters from EU 15 countries have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters, for cross-border commuters from the new 12 EU member countries the opposite applies. Within-country commuters have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters in...

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Educational Attainment and Education-job Mismatch of Cross-border Commuters in the EU

Huber, Peter - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2011

I describe the extent and structure of cross-border commuting in the EU 27 to show that this is important only in a …

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