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With a view to better assessment of the roles played by social security and social policy in determining well-being, this article introduces the ”decommodified security ratio“ (DSR), an instrument for evaluating an important duty of the social State, namely to maintain and improve people's...
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This article presents a microeconometric analysis of the annual mileage travelled by French households with their personal cars, defining their automobility. To feature car use dependence, the rational addiction model of Becker et al. (1994) is applied on a panel dataset, drawn from the French...
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innovative specifications about final consumption of transportation and energy to represent critical stylized facts such as …
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innovative specifications about final consumption of transportation and energy to represent critical stylized facts such as …
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Information about traffic conditions has traditionally been conveyed to drivers by radio and variable message signs, and more recently via the Internet and Advanced Traveler Information Systems. This has spurred research on how travelers respond to information, how much they are willing to pay...
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To analyze the response of cities to urban policies or transportation shocks, describing a succession of stationary … transportation tax causes a larger welfare loss than can be inferred from traditional models. Moreover, such a tax increases signi …
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This paper investigates the consequences of a sudden increase in transportation costs when households behaviors and …, transportation costs and urban structure. It is found that changes in households consumption and housing choices reduce significantly … the long-term adverse effects of a shock in transportation costs. Indeed, the shock translates, over the long-run, into a …
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Une entreprise qui fonde sa stratégie sur la différenciation par le haut se doit de respecter un certain nombre d'engagements permettant de légitimer sa position. En effet, sur un marché concurrentiel, un positionnement haut de gamme doit pouvoir se justifier aux yeux des clients par une...
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This paper examines the segregative properties of Tiebout-like endogenous processes of jurisdiction formation in presence of a competitive land market. In the model considered, a continuum of households with different wealth levels and the same preferences for local public goods, private...
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that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …
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