Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122678

Labour Supply and Commuting

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146827

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155006

Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141417

On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2012

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features – the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104938

Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147865

Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?

Lewer, Joshua J. - 2009

This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated quality of life indices in conjunction with other independent welfare measures to an extended...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155606

A Gravity Model of Migration between Enc and EU

Ramos, Raul - 2013

Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and illegal migration towards Europe. Their economic, cultural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073508

Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055895

Migration Gravity, Networks, and Unemployment

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Lin, Gary - 2022

We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240357