. 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 … the wage setting since firms need to compensate workers for their spatial costs. Compared to the non-spatial model, the …

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 … positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on the bargaining power of workers. Since not all …

commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is … accounted for by using employer-induced changes in commuting distance. In line with the theoretical model developed, we find … that commuting distance has a positive effect on daily hours. Our analysis does not find a negative effect of commuting …

The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and … unionized bargaining or the efficiency wage hypothesis. Spatial econometric approaches can be rationalized by monopsonistic … a long-run wage curve with spatial effects …

The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage … impact of the theoretically-based measures of job competition is rather similar to the wage impact of the unemployment rate …

In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an "empirical law of economics" - the Wage Curve … especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders the western German Wage Curve using disaggregated regional data … Services of Germany (Bundesagentur fur Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. We find that the wage equation is highly …

countries since the middle seventies. This paper argues that the uniform wage is the result of the centralized wage setting … of such phenomenon. Uniform wage across regions, the active role of the government to prevent internal mass migration and …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … intensity and distance trade-off weakening when a non-stop flight exists between the headquarters and the foreign subsidiary …'s economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to the proximity-concentration hypothesis. This trade-off is strongly …

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who … live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments … would suggest that the greater the distance to the nearest university, the lower the participation in higher education. We …