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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a … partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for … wage) to reduce commuting distance at the margin. The average men's marginal willingness to pay is similar to childless …
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waiting, £8.4 ($10.5) per hour of commuting, and £17.2 ($21.5) per hour of waiting during commuting (e.g. due to congestion …
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opportunities, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from much of the empirical literature on commuting … female employment, the less time women spend commuting. On average the 'female friendliness' of the local labour market has …
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these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
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The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …
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commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability of self-employment decreases with "expected" commuting time. We use … metropolitan areas in the US, focusing on the relationship between commuting time and the probability of self-employment. Our … empirical results show that the probability of self-employment is negatively related to the "expected" commuting time, giving …
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our … pattern of commuting and the employees-to-unemployed rate, although we find higher wages in comparatively crowded states …
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commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the … counties or counties in the same commuting zone. Standard economic explanations, which emphasize differences in utility or …
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