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This paper studies the relation between work and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Combining administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and short-time work registrations, firm- and worker-level surveys and cell phone tracking data on mobility patterns, we find that working...
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The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest experiment in working from home. We study how persistent telework may change … full time from home. Our findings suggest that telework translates into an annual increase in heating energy expenditure of … telework but high-income workers gain twice as much as low-income workers. The value of time saving is between 1.3 and 6 times …
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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 …
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will be illustrated with real-world applications on German commuting data. Also presented is a possible way of computation …
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-border commuting and migration as modes of mobility. The theoretical model shows that risk aversion has a negative effect on the … hypotheses regarding risk aversion and shows that the rate of time preference has a nonlinear effect on migration and commuting … regions in the European Union, in which both migration and commuting are possible. …
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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 …
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This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of cross-border sales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour...
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In the process of European integration, regions close to a border are especially affected by labour market liberalisation. Using data from the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and the employment register (BeH) for the period before and after the opening of the border (1980-2001) I shed light on...
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This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of cross-border sales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315629
The number of commuters and the distances of home-to-work travel have increased in recent decades. Based on a previous study that proposed a new approach for delineating functional labour market regions, this paper focuses on the temporal stability of delineations of labour market regions in...
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