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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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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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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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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 evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a large share of nominal wage disparities. Second, even after controlling for individual and -firms characteristics and instrumenting city characteristics, the estimated elasticity of...
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The digitization of copyrighted goods and the dematerialization of their distribution over the Internet have weakened …
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estimates the consumer's surplus of Internet's connection for France in 2005. Second, our paper challenges the initial … hypothesis take into account the concavity of the demand function of Internet and the second adds more realistic non …-monetary variables. We also make some differentiation between Internet adoption and access frequency patterns using Heckman's (1976 …
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Given the increasingly prominent role the Internet plays in people's daily life, understanding its influence on … individual well-being is crucial. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns that may increase life satisfaction …. But the Internet might also have detrimental effects (e.g. addiction, social isolation). This paper aims to examine the …
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This article examines the role of Internet based labour market intermediaries in coordinating job seeker …. A comparative analysis of job offers posted on the Internet with those posted in newspapers shows that search engine …
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La vente en ligne d'œuvres d'art devient un moyen important d'échange et de commercialisation des œuvres. Nous étudions cette nouvelle façon de mettre en contact acheteur e t vendeur à travers de sites spécialisés. Ce chapitre d'ouvrage comprend des tableaux comparatifs des portails et...
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