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Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2010

only reduce their commuting costs by reducing total labour supply. However, a labour supply model which also allows for … optimally chosen daily hours implies that commuting costs increase daily hours, whereas the effect on total labour supply is … commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is …

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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2022

statistically significant but small impact on active commuting (i.e. cycling and walking) around the border of the charging zone …

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Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data

Askitas, Nikos - 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...

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The Health Toll of Import Competition

Adda, Jerome - 2020

This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first show that import shocks affect employment and income, but only in areas where jobs are more intense in routine tasks. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health...

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Commuting Time and Labour Supply : A Causal Effect?

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2011

commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting … between commuting and workers behaviour, since daily labour supply should be considered in theoretical models to provide a …

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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties

Zenou, Yves - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...

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The Effect of Health on Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Halla, Martin - 2011

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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Altruism in Society : Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters

Mujcic, Redzo - 2013

We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, wefind evidence of (i)...

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The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion : Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2017

Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...

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Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power

Rupert, Peter - 2009

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … selection will bias downward the wage impact of commuting, and marginally affect the coefficients on education, age and gender …

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