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Urban planning is commonly blamed for its failure to exert a positive influence on managing climate change impacts in urban Africa; yet little is known about planning agencies' perspectives on climate change-urban planning conundrum, and corresponding policy responses. It is in response to this...
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receiving regions and shorter commuting distances favor positive selection of commuters. Empirically all types of commuters in …
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This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
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well as urban commuting and shopping patterns are considerably affected by, e.g., changes in the average household size in … a city. For instance, wage inequality between differently skilled workers rises and extreme cross commuting drops to …
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To what extent does commuting reduce urban – rural and regional wage disparities? This question is addressed by … and Latvia commuting has significantly narrowed the ceteris paribus wage gap between capital city and rural areas, as well … country-specific skills composition of rural – urban commuting flows and wage discrimination against rural residents in …
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predominantly automobile. In contrast, pure commuting subsidies hardly affect aggregate urban welfare, but distributional effects …
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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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In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective. We have examined under which … conditions the commuting distribution is unimodal which is one of the stylised facts of commuting. It appears that a necessary …, spatiality-differentiated search or heterogeneity of jobs. Residential mobility does not appear to explain the shape of commuting …
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realistic representation of decisions related to commuting, migration and household and employment location. The model allows …
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commuting flows from a Norwegian region with a high number of ferry connections and/or tunnels and bridges. Based on a doubly …-constrained gravity-based model specification we focus on how commuting flows respond to varying toll charges and ferry prices. Estimation … results are used to predict how the generation and distribution of commuting flows is affected when ferry connections are …
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