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Exploring accessibility to employment opportunities in African cities : a first benchmark

Peralta-Quiros, Tatiana; Kerzhner, Tamara; Avner, Paolo - 2019

This paper presents an analysis of transit accessibility to employment for 11 African cities. The use of identical … methodologies and similar data sets allows for the creation of the first benchmark to compare accessibility across urban areas in … developed here can be replicated in different cities in the future. The computation of these baseline accessibility studies also …

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The efficiency effects of transport policies in the presence of externalities and distortionary taxes

Mayeres, Inge - In: Journal of transport economics and policy 34 (2000) 2, pp. 233-260

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Developments in transport policy : deregulation of public transport in Sweden

Jansson, Kjell - In: Journal of transport economics and policy 25 (1991) 1, pp. 97-107

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Unobserved heterogeneity and efficiency measurement in public transport

Cullmann, Astrid; Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo - In: Journal of transport economics and policy 46 (2012) 1, pp. 51-66

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Measuring inequality of access : modeling physical remoteness in Nepal

Banick, Robert; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro - 2019

facilities, these time-based measures of remoteness amount to measures of physical accessibility to services. However … assessment of accessibility. Having validated the generic model and compared it with other popular metrics, the study … demonstrates its value by inputting a variety of services into it. This paper provides descriptive analyses of accessibility trends …

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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2020

informality Engel curve. The analysis finds that the budget share spent in the informal sector steeply declines with income, in … income taxes. These effects are primarily driven by the shape of the informality Engel curve. Taking informality into account …

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What aspects of formality do workers value? : evidence from a choice experiment in Bangladesh

Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2020

This study uses a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for job attributes: a contract, termination notice, working hours, paid leave, and a pension fund. Using a stated preference method allows calculation of WTP for benefits in this setting,...

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Incidence of the digital economy and frictional unemployment : international evidence

Lederman, Daniel; Zouaidi, Marwane - 2020

between unemployment and informality on the one hand, and a negative bivariate correlation between informality and the …

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Urban agglomerations and employment transitions in Ethiopia

Kamei, Akito; Nakamura, Shohei - 2020

Agglomeration boosts economic growth. A vast literature has empirically assessed the effects of agglomeration by estimating the city population elasticity on wages. This conventional approach is not necessarily suitable for analyzing urbanization at the early stage in developing countries, where...

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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo

Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020

This paper uses microsimulation techniques to quantify the potential ex-ante impacts of several minimum wage increases on labor market outcomes in Kosovo. The results show that the overall impacts of a minimum wage increase in the baseline scenario are likely to be modest, although the impacts...

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