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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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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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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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Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health …
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market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we …, and marital status. These differences among men and women amount to 50%, and 100%, respectively, of the gender commuting … commuting time are also significantly smaller in same-sex couples, and labor supply disparities mimic the commuting ones …
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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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home on commuting time are biased downward because most studies ignore preference based sorting (self-selection): workers … who dislike commuting, and hence have shorter commutes, might also be more likely to work from home.In this paper we … percent higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting …
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This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different … health behavior are barely affected by commuting time, subjective health measures are clearly lower for people who commute … longer. A longer commuting time is, moreover, related to more visits to the general practitioner. Effects turn out to be more …
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The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …
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