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How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore
Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016
We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069026
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction between Product and Labor Market Deregulation : Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777020
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Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Challenges and Lessons Learned
Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2018
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented around the world. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned...
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Measuring Performance : Ranking State Success Over Two Decades in India
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka; Saattvic - 2022
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
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Inequalities and Segregation Across the Long-Term Economic Cycle : An Analysis of South and North European Cities
Tammaru, Tiit - 2017
the effect of the most recent economic crisis will most likely be long-term, especially in the South of Europe …
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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities : Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich
Musterd, Sako - 2016
-economic segregation in Europe has grown. This paper develops a rigorous multi-factor approach to understand segregation and links it to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001870
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Employment Outcomes and the InteractionBetween Product and Labor Market Deregulation:Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product marketliberalization on employment when there are interactions between policies and institutions inproduct and labor markets...
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field : An Experiment in Public Transportations
Dai, Zhixin - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Burgess, Simon M. - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
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