Because rational individuals know that they cannot always get what they want, they are assumed to make appropriate adjustments. However, little is known about trade-off reasoning in labor market mobility decision making. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of commuting on the...

Es werden die Effizienzwirkungen der sogenannten Pendlerpauschale unter verschiedenen Szenarien untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass in Abhängigkeit vom Ausmaß, in dem Steuern einbezogen werden, unterschiedliche Entscheidungs-wirkungen, hier bezogen auf die Entscheidung über den Wohnort,...

I research the consequences of changes in the deductibility of commuting costs in Germany from 2001 to 2006. Official figures provided by the Federal Statistical Office highlight the fact that German taxpayers claimed deductions for commuting allowances to the tune of 23-29 billion e over the...

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 benefits, search may or may not be biased towards distant...

Wenn das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) am 9. Dezember 2008 sein Urteil darüber verkündet, ob die geltende gesetzliche Regelung zur Pendlerpauschale verfassungswidrig ist, dann steht ihre juristische Bewertung im Vordergrund. Aktuell werden die Aufwendungen der nicht-selbständigen...

The comparison of cities with regard to their economic or demographic development may yield misleading results, if solely the cities in their administrative borders are the object of consideration. Frequently, historical borders of cities neither conform to the contemporary settlement...