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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 … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …
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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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Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...
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and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …
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. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages … are willing to live closer to jobs to save on time commuting costs. We show that, in equilibrium, there is a one … commuting costs and land rent create additional frictions in the labor market …
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Daily commuting of workers is a complex phenomenon that has attracted research attention for many years and, despite … the significant literature acknowledging differences between morning and evening commuting, commuting to and from work are … considered symmetric trips in much of the prior research. We explore the asymmetries in time spent commuting to and from work, in …
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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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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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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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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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