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Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R.; Røed, Knut; … - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited...

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Do economic incentives promote physical activity? : evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2021

This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London … Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London …. The scheme imposes charges on most types of cars entering, exiting and operating within the Central London area, while …

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Bright minds, big rent : gentrification and the rising returns to skill

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia; Sviatschi, Maria - 2015

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set...

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Labour supply and commuting

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2010

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...

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Nowcasting business cycles using toll data

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...