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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers : A Cross-Country Analysis

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

commuting time in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK, with male workers …This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last … three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those …

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Commuting and Sickness Absence

Goerke, Laszlo - 2017

We investigate the causal effect of commuting on sickness absence from work using German panel data. To address reverse … causation, we use changes in commuting distance for employees who stay with the same employer and who have the same residence … during the period of observation. In contrast to previous papers, we do not observe that commuting distances are associated …

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Bright Investments : Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti

Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2019

This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using satellite night-light luminosity as a proxy measure. Our identification strategy exploits the differential timing of rehabilitation projects across various road segments of the primary...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities : Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2015

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?

Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders

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