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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334847
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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis
Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019
This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002696
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098258
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325159
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325209
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Search theory, spatial labor markets, and commuting
Rouwendal, Jan - In: Journal of urban economics 43 (1998) 1, pp. 1-22
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Why are the commuting distances of power couples so short? : an analysis of the location preferences of households : ERSA Congress Jököping Sweden, 19th - 23th August 2010
Straaten, J. Willemijn van der; Rouwendal, Jan - 2010
than singles or single-earner households. However, the commuting time of power couples is relatively short. In this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575579
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The spread of COVID-19 and the BCG vaccine : a natural experiment in reunified Germany
Bluhm, Richard; Pinkovskiy, Maxim - In: Covid economics : vetted and real-time papers (2020) 19, pp. 87-114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217293
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The spread of COVID-19 and the BCG vaccine : a natural experiment in reunified Germany
Bluhm, Richard; Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2020
canonical SIR model of the epidemic in each German county, allowing infections to spread along commuting patterns. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224318
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A dynamic model of commutes
Rouwendal, Jan; Vlist, Arno J. van der - 2002
commuting distance has a limited effect on job mobility, that there is no evidence for the existence of a critical commuting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326405