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Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health …
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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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We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
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administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …
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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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