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Green mobility and well-being
Echeverría, Lucía; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2021
Recent years have witnessed efforts worldwide to promote green mobility, aimed at boosting sustainable economic growth. However, how green mobility relates to travelers' well-being remains an open question. We explore whether "green" modes of transportation (public transit and walking/cycling)...
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Do changes in regulation affect temporary agency workers' job satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - 2015
regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916534
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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Structural reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2016
deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The …
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Cheating in the lab predicts fraud in the field : an experiment in public transportations
Dai, Zhixin; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...
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Search, migration, and urban land use : the case of transportation policies
Zenou, Yves - 2010
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
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Older adult health following greater access to secondary health care: evidence from bus service introductions to Arab towns in Israel
Abu-Qarn, Aamer S.; Lichtman-Sadot, Shirlee - 2021
How much can socioeconomically-based health disparities be attributed to differential access to secondary and specialist health care? We evaluate this question in the context of Arab-Jewish health disparities in Israel while exploiting the introduction of public transportation to Arab...
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The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labour markets: evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
Seltzer, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS-based data constructed from the New Survey of London Life...
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How do users Value a network expansion? : evidence from the public transit system in Singapore
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming - 2016
We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...
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