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We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their … labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing traffic congestion during rush hours leads to a more urbanized economy …
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market risk by commuting to adjacent regions. Since commuters own wage claims to output produced in adjacent regions, the …
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We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from which it can be reached within a specific time. Using publicly-available optimal routing software, we compute these "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest American and European...
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these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …
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districts are tending to lose ever more population. This trend is generally referred as "re-urbanization". Investigation using … positive migration balance can be understood as re-urbanization in the sense of a trend to move back into the city. The overall … movements so that re-urbanization appears as a selective process. This is true both in terms of the relevant age groups and from …
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processes are intensifying, re-urbanization processes are weakening. Selected measures to alleviate the tension in the housing …
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The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city … zu einer Suburbanisierung von Armut in westlichen Stadtregionen führen. PersistenteTrends der Reurbanisierung verstärken …
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In the 1990's, urban demand for housing land around city-agglomerations increased rapidly. Additionally, the decreasing profitability of agricultural production caused farmers, who are able to freely decide on land turnover, to be interested in land sale for non-agricultural purposes. At the...
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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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