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A small model of equilibrium mechanisms in a city

Palma, André De; Proost, Stef; Loo, Saskia Van Der - HAL - 2013

We use a simple economy with two interconnected geographical zones. Individuals can live and work in one of the two zones or can commute between them. This model is used to explore the dynamics of housing and work decisions after a permanent shock in labour demand occurred in one of the two...

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Polycentric city and multi-worker households: an agent-based microeconomic model

Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013

Polycentrism in cities is studied with the help of an agent-based model grounded in the Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM) framework, using microeconomic interactions between heterogeneous agents. This model is shown to reproduce the standard urban equilibrium with two income groups. Two job centers at...

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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited

Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013

We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of a "rich" center and more complex socio-spatial...

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Monocentric analysis of restricting the budget share of housing alone or with transportation

Coulombel, Nicolas - HAL - 2008

Considering the prolonged rise of energy price and the still elevated housing prices, the policy to limit the share of housing expenses in the households' budget, so as to secure their solvability, has been criticized. Supposedly, it induces people to get farther from the city center in search...

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Returns to firm-provided training in France: Evidence on mobility and wages

Chéron, Arna; Rouland, Bénédicte; Wolff, François … - HAL - 2010

untrained workers. Additional results on the effect of training on wages indicate that training participation in 1998 increases … wages by 7% in 2000, the wage premium remaining flat along the wage distribution. …

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Inter-firm dependency and employment inequalities : Theoretical hypotheses and empirical tests

Perraudin, Corinne; Petit, Héloïse; Thèvenot, Nadine; … - HAL - 2009

This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data

Bassanini, Andrea; Breda, Thomas; Caroli, Eve; … - HAL - 2010

establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …

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Task Organization, Human Capital and Wages in Moroccan Exporting Firms

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe J. - HAL - 2013

We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using … by our estimates: task organization influences on-the-job training that affects wages. Beyond sector and gender … textile sector and for well-educated workers. Finally, task organization and on-the-job training are found to affect wages. …

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Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China?

Duvivier, Chloe; Renard, Mary-Françoise; Li, Shi - HAL - 2012

In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …

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