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Job decentralization and transportation use in a monocentric city
Breteau, Vincent; Leurent, Fabien - HAL - 2011
Our objective in this paper is twofold: first, we want to give a theoretical founding to empirical findings of several works that emphasize the fact that while distance traveled increases with household location distance from the city center, transportation time tends to decrease, thus offering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368016
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Commuting Time and Accessibility in a Joint Residential Location, Workplace, and Job Type Choice Model
Inoa, Ignacio A.; Picard, Nathalie; Palma, André De - HAL - 2013
choice level in the following dimensions: education, age, gender and children. Using data from the Greater Paris Area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899354
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Effect of an Accessibility Measure in a Model for Choice of Residential Location, Workplace, and Type of Employment
Inoa, Ignacio; Picard, Nathalie; Palma, André De - HAL - 2014
heterogeneity of preferences at each choice level in education, age, gender, and children. Using data from the Île-de-France region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899447
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Intra-household Decision Models of Residential and Job Location
Picard, Nathalie; Palma, André De; Inoa, Ignacio - HAL - 2014
Residential location decision is often a household joint decision involving several decision-makers. These different decision-makers usually have diverging preferences, especially in dual-earner households, when spouses work at different locations. Since about half a century, literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899936
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Housing and Commuting in an Extended Monocentric Model
Breteau, Vincent; Leurent, Fabien - HAL - 2010
We model a city in which jobs are exogenous and distributed across an extended business area in which transport has a nonzero cost. Households are homogeneous in terms of utility and gross income, but each household chooses its residential location on the basis of its place of employment, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794148
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Urbanisation and Migration Externalities in China
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - HAL - 2013
'wages. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821484
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Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth
HERRERA, Catalina; Sahn, David - HAL - 2013
models, we estimate the role of household and community characteristics during childhood in later youth migration decisions …. We find that these determinants are heterogeneous by gender and destination. The higher the fathers' education the more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899844
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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration
Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - HAL - 2013
We match migration data from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a … push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological …-state migration in India. The effect is significant for both male and female migration rates. Drought duration and magnitude as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025739
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On the Move Livelihood Strategies in Northern Ghana
Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2011
The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021747
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930218