. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …

commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small … housing share has only little influence on the welfare effects and location patterns of counterfactual commuting cost …

commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small … housing share has only little influence on the welfare effects and location patterns of counterfactual commuting cost …

. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between commuting and spatial labour market developments in the … commuting flows, public transport, especially the train, is a more environmentally-benign mode of transport, compared with the … system, which can provide more opportunities for sustainable commuting patterns, may lead to favourable employment …

Over the past decades, commuting has become more and more important as a means for labor market adjustment. This is … reflected in increasing commuter shares and distances. Nevertheless, identifying the determinants of commuting distances is by … no means straightforward due to complex job and housing decisions. We argue that commuting results from a two …