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commuting distances. The results illustrate that graduates are drawn to prospering regions with ample job opportunities …, supposedly in order to advance their careers. They choose their places of residence so as to balance their commuting distances …
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We examine commuting in a game-theoretic setting with a continuum of commuters. Commuters' home and work locations can … the repeated commuting game. …
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, indicating that there are multiple biological channels through which commuting duration and timing impact road safety. None of …This paper is the first to combine data from large nationwide surveys to investigate how commuting and work hours … spent commuting replace sleep. Controlling for these effects, commuting before 5 a.m. and after 9 a.m. each increase the …
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We consider the role of the nonlinear commuting cost function in determination of the equilibrium commuting pattern … where all agents are mobile. Previous literature has considered only linear commuting cost, where in equilibrium, all … workers are indifferent about their workplace location. We show that this no longer holds for nonlinear commuting cost. The …
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Whether, and how much, increased commute costs decrease labor supply is important for transport policy, city growth, and business strategies. Yet empirical estimates are limited and biased downward due to endogenous choices of residences, workplaces, commute modes, and wages. We use the...
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goods and not vehicles. The paper establishes that investment on walking and cycling facilities, and surface rail projects … that share of cycling and walking is very high – varying between 58 and 30 % in different cities. The paper identifies that …
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decentralization, which aim at the optimization of urban commuting patterns by allowing households to locate closer to job …
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This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
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transport modes (e.g. walking, cycling, taking the bus etc...) in the presence of cars' negative impacts on alternative …
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Der Diskussion um neue Arbeitszeitarrangements und flexible Arbeitszeiten fehlt bislang die empirische Grundlage auf der Basis von personenbezogenen Mikrodaten. Gegenstand unserer Studie Arbeit ist es, Abweichungen vom Normalarbeitstag in zwei Dimensionen zu untersuchen: zum einen in der...
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