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Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that mixing land uses yields socio-economic benefits and therefore has a positive effect on housing values. In this paper, we investigate the impact of mixed land use on housing values...
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commuting trips in the entire Netherlands. Weather measurements are local and time specific (hourly basis). As most commuters … areas (and up to 15 percent of the overall commuting costs) …
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study of commuting behavior. This is illustrated by showing that introduction of a spatial element into the standard model … decentralized employment the spatial search model predicts excess commuting. Search theory also suggests that regression towards the …
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In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home … of commuting reaches a value of –4 for distances around 24 km, while it is close to 0 for both very short and very long … predictions concerning the effect of infrastructure improvements on commuting flows. …
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whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance …
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This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris …
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Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second …, wage compensation for commuting is lower for women after the birth compared to men: about 3 − 4 percentage points of …
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whether the commute has a positive effect on worker's absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance …
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This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the...
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model in which we study the interactions between agglomeration externalities and pollution from commuting. Our results show …
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