whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance …

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …

address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … local labor markets is pervasive, unique data are available, and because Germany’s high degree of trade openness poses a …

commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small … housing share has only little influence on the welfare effects and location patterns of counterfactual commuting cost …

"Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference …

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between commuting and spatial labour market developments in the … flows on employment in regional labour markets in Germany. Next, we address sustainability issues as a common umbrella for …. Negative environmental externalities as a result of modal choices in Germany are confirmed by data from EU-15 countries. Public …