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commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting … between commuting and workers behaviour, since daily labour supply should be considered in theoretical models to provide a …
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We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which …
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This paper analyzes subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting in an urban economics framework with two cities and … agglomeration externalities, where workers may commute within and between cities. First, commuting subsidies serve to internalize … agglomeration externalities: Intracity commuting subsidies give incentives to move to the larger city and intercity commuting …
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commuting and physical capital mobility. Referring to the decline in mobility costs, we are able to explain that long …-distance commuting and foreign direct investment have increased and that industrial activity has become more concentrated both within as …
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Assuming that higher traveling expenses reduce traveling time, this paper considers reliefs for traveling expenses to work when a distorting wage tax is levied. While the decision on traveling expenses would not be distorted if traveling costs were completely deductible, taxation would still not...
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This paper proposes the question whether or not traveling expenses to work should be deductible from the income tax base. In order to answer this question, a simple model of (im-) perfect household and worker mobility is employed. The focus of the analysis is on the efficient use of land and the...
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commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability of self-employment decreases with "expected" commuting time. We use … metropolitan areas in the US, focusing on the relationship between commuting time and the probability of self-employment. Our … empirical results show that the probability of self-employment is negatively related to the "expected" commuting time, giving …
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our … pattern of commuting and the employees-to-unemployed rate, although we find higher wages in comparatively crowded states …
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Employing a standard matching unemployment model extended by within-labor-market-regions commuting, this paper analyzes … the tradeoff between commuting costs and unemployment. Depending on whether commuters are able to bargain for fringe …
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Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health …
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