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Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample … distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune …
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The US trucking industry trade press often portrays the US labor market for truck drivers as not working, citing … supply of motor freight services. We investigate the truck driver labor market using three techniques. First, using data from … relatively high rates of occupational attachment among drivers, and importantly, we also find that truck drivers respond in the …
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composition of truck traffic, we find that trucking has in fact been a lagging sector of the U.S. economy over the period of our …
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Every year, approximately 27% of all jobs in the U.S. truck transportation sector (NAICS 484) are reshuffled across … U.S. trucking industry. This manuscript takes a first look at job creation and job destruction dynamics in truck … sector, the source of demand for most trucking ton-miles. In doing so, we draw on and extend theory in both supply chain …
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This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover,...
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preferences, or by other neighbourhood or housing market factors. By using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands, this … study contributes to the literature on neighbourhood selection by ethnic minorities in two ways. First, it distinguishes … found to be important in explaining neighbourhood selection. There are, however, differences between ethnic minority groups …
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Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
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This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
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neighbourhood effects literature is the identification of causal neighbourhood effects. A particular problem is that individuals do … potential of individuals. To get more insight in neighbourhood effects we run separate models for social renters and owner … with multiple neighbourhood scales operationalised. Based on the results we argue that any apparent neighbourhoods effects …
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behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods …: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …
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