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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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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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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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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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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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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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parallel to a complete change in the relationship between wages, rent and profit. To demonstrate our hypothesis, this article … is divided in two sections: in the first section we are going to examine the definitions of the categories of wages, rent …
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China's export performance over the past fifteen years has been phenomenal. Is this performance going to last? Wages …-intensive provinces may draw on this reservoir to increase competition in their labor market and keep wages low for many years to come. We …
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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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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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