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People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is … direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower … this ?commuting paradox?. …
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market risk by commuting to adjacent regions. Since commuters own wage claims to output produced in adjacent regions, the …
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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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these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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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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commuting and physical capital mobility. Referring to the decline in mobility costs, we are able to explain that long …-distance commuting and foreign direct investment have increased and that industrial activity has become more concentrated both within as …
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commuting costs the effect of housing frictions plays a large role and can generate a substantial decline in mobility. We show …
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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, we find evidence of (i)...
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commuting patterns. Although only suggestive, the finding is interesting in that it is consistent with the hypothesis that … inequality enhances growth by stimulating commuting incentives. …
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opportunities, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from much of the empirical literature on commuting … female employment, the less time women spend commuting. On average the 'female friendliness' of the local labour market has …
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