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The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
Seltzer, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658207
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Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - 2012
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287692
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Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695865
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The cost impact of spam filters: measuring the effect of information system technologies in organizations
Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2008
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269043
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Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks
Dietz, Barbara - 1999
. Consistent with network theory, the social background of the Aussiedler group became more representative of the sending … the labor market performance of ethnic Germans, the outcome of network participation with respect to social absorption is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262291
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262689
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In search of stars: network formation among heterogeneous agents
Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno; Ule, Aljaz - 2005
This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The … experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by … network has a star structure. We find that with homogeneous agents, equilibrium predictions fail completely. In contrast, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267578
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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia in terms of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267935
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people … importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269364
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Family networks and school enrolment: evidence from a randomized social experiment
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009
embedded in a family network. Eligible but isolated households do not respond. The mechanism through which the extended family … influences household schooling choices is the redistribution of resources within the family network from eligibles that receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269707