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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 accept an increase of their commute as compared to their...
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In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We...
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For several decades advanced economies have been undergoing a profound structural change. Its main characteristic appears to be the progressive decline of industry as the driving force of economy. The propulsory role once played by the manufacturing industry seems to have been replaced by the...
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This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …
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While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level … introduction can account for about half of the recent decrease in wage inequality …
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skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from …
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There is an ongoing debate on the concentration of container throughput in the European container port system. A … ports argue that a shift in port traffic from the north to the south would be beneficial for the environment and the economy … and compare several hinterland accessibility indices to explain the relative size of port regions. Besides standard …
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, ports and port regions increasingly compete to serve distant hinterlands. In a European context, many researchers refer to … the agglomeration of economic activity in the Rhine-Ruhr area and the ‘blue banana' to explain the concentration of port … activity in the Hamburg-Le Havre port range. Besides this, the incorporation of new member states in the European market has …
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