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Spatial Linkages, Global Shocks, and Local Labor Markets : Theory and Evidence
Adão, Rodrigo - 2019
their counterfactual implications. Applying our methodology to US Commuting Zones, we find that difference …
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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence
Bajari, Patrick - 2009
In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading example is highway construction, where slow completion times inflict a negative externality on commuters. Recently, highway departments have introduced innovative contracting methods...
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Quits, Moves, Spatial Equilibrium and Workplace Relocation
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1987
When worker commutes are suboptimal, quits and moves are related. Either a quit, a move, or both can achieve an optimal commute. However, with fixed costs to quitting and moving, a quit or move alone is more likely than both together. Payroll records of a firm which relocated from the central...
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Driving to Opportunity : Local Rents, Wages, Commuting Costs and Sub-Metropolitan Quality of Life
Albouy, David - 2014
We examine variation in local wage levels, housing costs, and commuting costs for 2071 areas covering the United States …
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Time savings when working from home
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
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Time Savings When Working from Home
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
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COVID-19 and Remote Work : An Early Look at US Data
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2020
now working from home, including 35.2% who report they were commuting and recently switched to working from home. In … between the fraction in a state still commuting to work and the fraction working from home. We find that the share of people …
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Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work
Stanton, Christopher T.; Tiwari, Pratyush - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-remote households in the same commuting zone. Remote households' higher housing expenditures arise from larger dwellings (more rooms …-average housing costs, and sorting within-commuting zone to suburban or rural areas was not economically meaningful. Using the pre …
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Suburbanization in the United States 1970-2010
Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, residence attractiveness and bilateral commuting frictions). This methodology holds in the class of spatial models that are … characterized by a structural gravity equation for commuting. We show that the increased openness of counties to commuting is mainly … explained by reductions in bilateral commuting frictions, consistent with the expansion of the interstate highway network and …
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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York
Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration. Urban school transportation is...
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