. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …

. The profound change in urban mobility patterns supports the often-held view that reducing the number of commuting trips … their location in the long run toward longer commuting trips, but cheaper housing, implying an adjustment in the real … commuting trip length …

choice, road investment and suburbanization. The model simplifies urban space by dividing it into two zones (islands), center … increase in suburbanization. …

This paper provides evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of … suburbanization using a two-step panel approach. Our main results suggest that an additional highway ray displaced approximately 4% of … railways on average. However, railways did cause suburbanization those located in Central-North Europe. When employing the full …

We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which …

This paper analyzes subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting in an urban economics framework with two cities and … agglomeration externalities, where workers may commute within and between cities. First, commuting subsidies serve to internalize … agglomeration externalities: Intracity commuting subsidies give incentives to move to the larger city and intercity commuting …

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their …

The paper discusses the tax treatment of commuting where wages and housing cost vary across locations. An income tax … distorts the locational choices of agents, who dislike commuting and have preferences for place of residence Wages, housing … cost and commuting cost determine how subsidising or taxing commuting affects behaviour and social efficiency. A subsidy …

An unappreciated potential benefit of commuting subsidies is that they can expand the choice set of feasible job … opportunities in a way that facilitates a better job match quality. Variations in wages and initial commuting distances, combined … with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula in Germany, generate worker-specific variation in commuting subsidy …