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?. …

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 …

market risk by commuting to adjacent regions. Since commuters own wage claims to output produced in adjacent regions, the …

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 …

these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces …

This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin …–2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and trade's R&D content, and falls with distance to the … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia – SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces …

case we find support for the claim that an exogenous wage increase leads to higher employment growth. …