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In this paper we study the effects of Switzerland implementing the Schengen agreement on cross-border commuting from … granted freedom to cross borders away from fixed checkpoints, commuting costs are severely reduced. Using data from the …
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these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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. Both measures are highly correlated with telework references in job ads and yield comparable estimates for the differential …
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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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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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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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commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small … housing share has only little influence on the welfare effects and location patterns of counterfactual commuting cost …
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