address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … local labor markets is pervasive, unique data are available, and because Germany’s high degree of trade openness poses a …

address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … local labor markets is pervasive, unique data are available, and because Germany's high degree of trade openness poses a …

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

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1 … average, depending on the presumed trade elasticity. However, remote regions may face initial welfare losses of up to 4 … percent causing an estimated migration of about 8 million individuals to the European core. This implies that the dismantling …

implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for Germany, we find that it indeed delivers smaller spatial economic …

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

show that strongly localized knowledge spillovers, skilled labor abundance, and low commuting costs are key drivers for a …

with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula in Germany, generate worker-specific variation in commuting 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 …

I document a new fact about mobility within the United States. County-to-county migration and commuting drop discretely …

, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education …