The literature on car cruising is dominated by theory. This is the first article that

Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...

This paper aims to investigate the entrepreneurial migrants’ preferences for a location for business

This paper explores the phenomenon of ethnic entrepreneurship and migration in developing countries. Our focus is on the decision of migrants to choose a particular site for conducting entrepreneurial activities. A survey of literature is presented in the opening section, in which two...

Long run developments such as income growth and urban sprawl lead one to expect a continuous decline of the contribution of non-motorised transport modes to the performance of transport systems. In terms of the total number of trips, non-motorised transport modes have retained high shares,...

Small-scale and cottage industries (SSMI) have received a considerable amount of attention in development strategies and policies in many countries. One of the main arguments in favour of small scale production is its potential to create employment, as it uses more labour per unit of output....

We develop an equilibrium job search model in which employees incur endogenous commuting costs. This model leads to the following conclusions:<br> 1.Firms partially compensate workers for the incurred commuting costs.<br> 2.When workers have more bargaining power, they will receive less compensation for...

Regions vary strongly according to the participation of firms in R&D activity. By linking data on R&D activity at the firm level with GIS based data on economic, and other location features of zones we are able to investigate the impact of local factors on R&D involvement for various types of...

This paper extends previous literature on variations in mobility rates across local housing markets by examining the linkage of mobility rates at the household level to the structure of local housing markets. The results indicate that residential mobility rates differ widely across local housing...

The positive correlation between the absolute price elasticity of telecommunications demand and the distance of the calling relation is well known. In this paper we first present a meta-analysis of existing studies to buttress the distance dependence empirically. The analysis confirms the...