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In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
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In this paper, we analyse how increasing student migration from a less developed to a developed country alters education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a higher permanent migration probability, i.e., a higher...
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potential concerns: (i) lower levels of labor mobility, (ii) greater commuting times, and (iii) fewer new businesses. Our …
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mobility would have been 24% higher after four years, had real house prices increased at 1980s rates, and 10% higher if house …
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In most industrialised countries, it can be seen that urban mobility and car traffic have stagnated since the early … the trend, which was confirmed by household travel surveys (EMDs) in most major cities, including Lille, Lyon and … to people living in large urban areas and provides an overall view of mobility: trips have become less frequent (with …
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Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
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such as individual competences, collective learning processes, knowledge as an economic factor, centrality, mobility, or … infrastructure, mobility offerings, access to communication technologies, and educational networks and educational landscapes …
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illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger …
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-border mobility of inventors within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is …
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-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
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