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 …

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 …

estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain … estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates …