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Recruitment in a Monopsonistic Labour Market: Will Travel Costs be reimbursed?

Rouwendal, Jan; van Ommeren, Jos - 2007

Reimbursement of commuting costs by employers has attracted little attention from economists. We develop a theoretical … frictions and show that partial reimbursement of commuting cost will in general be an element of the recruitment policy. The … alternative explanation that stresses the role of tax incentives is unlikely to provide a full explanation of the commuting costs …

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Search Theory and Commuting Behavior

Rouwendal, Jan - 2004

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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The Costs and Benefits of Providing Open Space in Cities

Rouwendal, Jan; van der Straaten, J. Willemijn - 2008

Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...

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A Dynamic Model of Commutes

Rouwendal, Jan; van der Vlist, Arno - 2002

commuting distance has a limited effect on job mobility, that there is no evidence for the existence of a critical commuting …

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Public transport investments, commuting and gentrification: Evidence from Copenhagen

Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2022

This paper considers the impact of the introduction of a metro network in the Copenhagen metropolitan area. Using travel surveys from years before and after the opening of the metro network, we observe a significant change in travel times, speeds and mode choice for commutes that can completely...

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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge

De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019

Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....

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Health and Work of the Elderly

Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - 2002

This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other exp1icitly into account. For this, two issues are of re1evance. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...

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Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; van den Berg, … - 2003

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business cycle conditions early in life as an exogenous indicator. Individual records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death, covering a window of unprecedented size...

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Retirement Behaviour of Dutch Elderly Households: Diversity in Retirement Patterns across Different Household Types

Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Alessie, Rob; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2002

This paper aims to assess the relative importance of differences in behaviouralresponses to financial incentives in explaining the observed variation in retirement behaviour across different types of households. We specify and estimate models for singles and married couples and estimate these on...

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Measuring and Explaining the Limited Take-up of the Housing Benefit in the Netherlands

Rouwendal, Jan - 2002

It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and othermeans tested benefits is substantially below 100%. In order to measure non-take up oneusually has to simulate entitlement to the benefits. In this paper we take a closer look atthe quality of the simulation. We find...

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