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commuting distances. The results illustrate that graduates are drawn to prospering regions with ample job opportunities …, supposedly in order to advance their careers. They choose their places of residence so as to balance their commuting distances …
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One of the classic predictions of the urban economic theory is that high-income and low-income households choose … different residential locations and therefore, conditional on workplace location, have different commuting patterns. Empirical … tests of this theory are not standard, due to unobserved heterogeneity of workers, the presence of residential moving costs …
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-regional mobility in UK (through commuting behavior). We consider a simple theoretical model and develop an empirical application using … data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) 2004-2011. According to the theory, workers who commute from one labor …, we find that earnings, sex differences and individual characteristics play an important role in explaining commuting …
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activities theory but, maybe reflecting the difficult of available data, specific evidence about the influence of the commuting … (IPEA, 2013). According to the more recent information of PNAD (PNAD 2012), the average commuting time for the inhabitant of … interpretation of the results (Ichino wt al. 2008). We find that individuals with more than one hour of commuting have an overall 2 …
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Local systems are conglomerations of municipalities held together by commuting links. ? Are they real life objects or …) has been disseminating local systems based on commuting data collected on the occasion of population censuses since 1971 … of Italy. The remaining municipalities and systems are characterized by weak commuting links and either are located in …
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EMPLOYER MOBILITY PLANS: ACCEPTABILITY, EFFICIENCY AND COSTS The concentrated and repeated nature of commuting traffic … offers action potentials to control or reduce the number of single-occupant vehicles commuting during the peak hours. As … of EMPs? Do they change the commuting behaviour of the workers? What are their costs and benefits for a company? Hence …
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We exploit administrative data on exact commuting distances for a large sample of German employees and study the … relation of commuting and wages. We find that it requires 1.5 times as much money in terms of higher wages for job changers to …
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Studies find that in time of crisis such as natural disasters, in most cases, people in crowds are capable to remain calm and to help each other. Referred as 'collective resilience', this capability can increase a society's capacity to withstand crises and disasters. Therefore, for both academia...
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Traffic congestion contributes to longer travel times and increased travel time variability. We account for the dynamic nature of travellers' choices, by deriving a closed-form solution for the costs of travel time variability. The resulting travel delay cost function is linear in the mean...
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This paper investigates home to work travel pattern in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area. Investigation explores commuting … pattern in three steps. In the first step, the reasons for changing commuting time are explored initially in relationship to … urban structure. Added explanation then considers the gender, tenure type, income, occupation and commuting type. The result …
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