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Elderly's mobility to and from work in the US: metropolitan status and population size
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020
This paper explores the mobility patterns of elder workers in the United States, with a focus on mobility to and from work (e.g., commuting) across metropolitan areas and metropolitan population sizes. Using detailed time diaries from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2018,...
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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers : A Cross-Country Analysis
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020
This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843155
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Excess commuting in the US : differences between the self-employed and employees
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2015
differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize … their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the … difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i …
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Working from home and the gender gap in earnings for self-employed US Millennials
Simon, Jessica; Way, Megan McDonald - In: Gender in management : an international journal 30 (2015) 3, pp. 206-224
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The impact of financial integration on the labor share of income : an empirical evidence from a panel dataset
Huong Le - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 63 (2020) 3, pp. 597-627
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Facilitating India-Pakistan trade through the land route
Taneja, Nisha; Dayal, Isha; Bimal, Samridhi - 2016
Improvements in the land route between India and Pakistan can help lower transaction costs which can play in important role in realizing the trade potential between the two countries. Connecting India and Pakistan by the land route offers gains not only to the two countries but would spread over...
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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
Flückiger, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; Larch, Mario; … - 2019 - This version: July 2019
We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...
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Rockets and feathers revisited : asymmetric retail fuel pricing in the era of market transparency
Asane-Otoo, Emmanuel; Dannemann, Bernhard - 2019 - This Version: October 2019
In this paper, we revisit the empirical observation that prices rise like rockets when input costs increase but fall like feathers when input costs decrease. The analysis draws on a novel dataset that include daily retail prices of gasoline and diesel from virtually all fuel stations in Germany...
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Does transport behavior influence preferences for electromobility? : an analysis based on person- and alternative-specific error components
Bahamonde-Birke, Francisco - 2015
The interconnection among different choices by the same decision-maker is fairly well established in the literature. Along this line, this paper aims to identify how preferences for electromobility are affected by mode choices for regular trips. With this purpose in mind, a framework based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392243
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Domestic market power in the international airline industry
Jong, Gjalt de; Behrens, Christiaan; Herk, H. van; … - 2016
We posit and empirically test the hypothesis that airlines are able to charge a fare premium in markets that originate in their domestic country relative to similar markets that originate in foreign countries. To this end, we focus on intercontinental one-stop air travel trips for which the...
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